Okay, here's yet another newbie question.
I'm creating an application with several linked tables-for example,
Authors and Books. The "Book" model has its own primary ID
(automatically generated), plus the following fields:
author_id
title
subtitle
subject
The author_id field is a foreign key linking it to the Authors table.
I want to create a static scaffold form so that I can generate new
books. The "author_id" field does not show up in the scaffold, and it
won't accept the field.
ULTIMATELY, I want this field to be a pull-down menu that allows me
to select an author name and it goes back to a hash in the book model
to pull the values (and automatically inserts the correct author_id).
I've tried creating just a plain text field in the static scaffold form:
<p><label for="author_id">Name</label><br/>
<%= text_field 'book', 'author_id' %></p>
I've also tried form.select and various hashes, but the issue seems
to be that I can't access the field (Book.author_id) from the
scaffold.
What gives?
Thanks,
Kevin Burk
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