Rails questions

[Joe Van Dyk]

Spent some time this weekend working on a Rails application. It's great
stuff, coming from a php/mysql "hack it together" background. But I have a
couple questions...

1)
I have a controller called "houses". In that, there's an action called
"modify". modify's view (modify.rhtml) has a form with an action
"save_house". When the user hits submit, modify gets called with id
save_house (i.e. /houses/modify/save_house). What I want to have happen is
the action "save_house" called. I have another action "new", and new.rhtml
has a form with action "create_house", and when the user hits submit, the
action "create_house" is called, which is what I want to have happen. I'm
not sure why that's not the case with modify.

2)
has_and_belongs_to_many question: I have a model "House" that
has_and_belongs_to_many "Amenity". Is there a "Best Way(tm)" to display
this relationship in the controller/view? The way it works currently:

houses_controller#new:
@amenities=Amenities.find_all

new.rhtml:
(loops through @amenities, spits out checkboxes.)

house_controller#create:
@house = House.new(@params["house"].save
@house.amenities.clear
@params["amenities"].each do |amenity|
# @params["amenities"] is an array of amenity id's that the user
selected
temp_amenity = Amenities.new
temp_amenity.id = amenity
@house.amenities << amenity
end

This seems pretty clumsy to me.


Thanks for any input!

Joe

 

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

1)

I have a controller called "houses". In that, there's an action called
"modify". modify's view (modify.rhtml) has a form with an action
"save_house". When the user hits submit, modify gets called with id
save_house (i.e. /houses/modify/save_house). What I want to have
happen is
the action "save_house" called. I have another action "new", and
new.rhtml
has a form with action "create_house", and when the user hits submit,
the
action "create_house" is called, which is what I want to have happen.
I'm
not sure why that's not the case with modify.

It sounds like you're using scaffolding, which had a problem regarding
this in Rails 0.8.5. You can fix it manually by doing something like:

<%= form("house", :action => url_foraction => "save_house")) %>

...if my guess at what your problem is have any grounding in reality.
This problem is fixed in the very forthcoming (and massive) Rails 0.9
upgrade.

2)
has_and_belongs_to_many question: I have a model "House" that
has_and_belongs_to_many "Amenity". Is there a "Best Way(tm)" to
display
this relationship in the controller/view? The way it works currently:

house_controller#create:

@house = House.new(@params["house"].save
@house.amenities << Amenities.find(@params["amenities"])

Amenities.find accepts and array and will return a such.
@house.amenities.<< does the same and creates a link between the house
and amenity for each of the records found.

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