On Dec 25 2011, 12:32 am, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
On Dec 25, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Bob Smith wrote:
problem as I am using the new_record? test to remove the
radio_buttons. I am trying to find a way to get the id after the
create and putting it in the Household.hoh field. Maybe in the
after_create callback for each Person object. But how can I access the
radiobuttonand see who was selected from there ?? I see you
used .first to set the id. Will this help me see who was selected by
theradiobuttons ??No, this only hacks around the problem of setting the primary role in a new title object by choosing the first member of the has_many roles collection within the controller. The actual method of getting the role from theradiobuttonis much simpler and more direct.
<%= radio_button_tag 'title[role_id]', f.object.id, (@title.role_id == f.object.id) %>
That's inside a partial called _role_fields.html.erb, and it's filled in using the nested_form gem as I mentioned earlier. It's just named correctly to act on the parent title object, and inside the partial, f.object points to the individual role object.
Walter
On Dec 25, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Bob Smith wrote:
On Dec 24, 1:18 pm, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Use an :after_create callback in those cases; you will have the ID at
that point and you can use it. Remember, you will need to set any
relationship keys directly, not at the object level, since you can't
call save again in an after_create (I don't think). Here's my
after_save method from a similar setup:
def set_primary
self.update_attributes( :role_id => self.roles.first.id ) if
self.roles.first
end
Use an :after_create callback in those cases; you will have the ID at
that point and you can use it. Remember, you will need to set any
relationship keys directly, not at the object level, since you can't
call save again in an after_create (I don't think). Here's my
after_save method from a similar setup:
def set_primary
self.update_attributes( :role_id => self.roles.first.id ) if
self.roles.first
end
This is from inside a Title, which has_many roles, has_many people through roles, and belongs_to one role (designating the "primary" person, like the author or the editor -- the one that people think of when they're looking for that book, even though lots of people may have contributed to it).
I needed to go this route because I was using Ryan Bates' nested_form gem, and so I was adding roles to a title that hadn't been saved yet -- very similar to your setup if I recall correctly. Since I can't designate a primary in the #new method, because nothing has anIDyet, I use this callback to sort things out, and count on my editors to always choose the most important person first. I have a new_record? test in my view to hide theradiobuttons in that case, and show them in the #edit view of the same form.
Walter
This is very close to what I wanted. It seems you were having the sameproblem as I am using the new_record? test to remove the
radio_buttons. I am trying to find a way to get the id after the
create and putting it in the Household.hoh field. Maybe in the
after_create callback for each Person object. But how can I access the
radiobuttonand see who was selected from there ?? I see you
used .first to set the id. Will this help me see who was selected by
theradiobuttons ??
<%= radio_button_tag 'title[role_id]', f.object.id, (@title.role_id == f.object.id) %>
That's inside a partial called _role_fields.html.erb, and it's filled in using the nested_form gem as I mentioned earlier. It's just named correctly to act on the parent title object, and inside the partial, f.object points to the individual role object.
Walter
Bob
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The latest problem is with the radio button using a variable in the
parent to store the selected child record id. Setting
this in the view doesn't allow new records to have an id yet. Do you
know a way of having each radio button put a one in a
variable that is located in each child record ? If so, then it should
be easy for after_create to test each child record
for that value and when it's found there should already be an id to
put in the parent variable.
Thanks again
Bob
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