If you're going to follow Rails convention, go back to author_id.
Through AR magic, when you say "book belongs to author," it
automagically gives some methods to your book model. One of those is
"author" which it expects to return a Author model object found using
the author_id attribute as a foreign key. That's why you're getting
the mismatch error. I'm assuming when it's author_id, that field is
not going to show up in scaffolding b/c rails knows that's a
foreign_key and not a regular attribute (like name or title or
something).
Going back to the original issue, did you try my suggestion on the
form_for syntax? The doc examples show passing both the symbol and
instance variable like this:
form_for :book, :@books, :url => { :action => 'create' } do |form|
Chris,
I did try that syntax on the form_for. I still received the same
errors that the methods for each of the field names were missing.
The question is, then how can I create a new object and set the
foreign key in it in a form?
I've been attempting to use the static scaffold because it
automatically generates the "create" "edit" and "new" methods and I'm
VERY new at the code. But it seems that I need to build it all from
scratch?
Kevin Burk
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