Thank you for the replies-I don't think I'm being clear about the
core problem, though.
I have no need for anything more flexible than the scaffold for
this-it's an admin-only data entry form. I'm also very new at this,
so abstract advice and code snippets don't help me because I have no
context for them.
What I need is simply this:
A form that writes to the BOOKS table that includes an integer field
for "author_id" (or simply "author" - see below). I can pretty it up
with a select field of author names later. The BASIC function of the
form still doesn't work.
The problem DOES seem to be with the _id extension of the field. When
I rebuild the table and rename the field "author" instead of
"author_id" the field shows up correctly in the scaffold form.
HOWEVER, now, I can't write to the table because I get an error of
"Association TypeMismatch" in the BooksController: Author expected,
got String
I think the issue is that the text field for "author" is not sending
as an integer, which is what the "author" field in the database is.
Actually, I'm sure of this, because in the session dump the request
parameters show:
"author" => "1" when it SHOULD show "author" => 1
How can I fix this?
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