Question

I am looking for a little advice on structuring the following.

I would like to display a single page. On which 3 events can be created or updated. Each event has a specific name (Open, Close, Start)

I would like user to be able to create, 1 or all 3 of the events.

Upon returning to the same url I would like the created events to be displayed for the user to Update, and uncreated events to be available for creation.

For example.

User vists events/new

Creates Event – (called Open)

No action for Close and Start.

Upon returning to events/new

Event (Open) value is displayed. To be updated.

Events Close and Start can be created new.

How would you structure this? I toyed with the idea of implementing find_or_create method. Should this be placed in the create action in the controller, to replace the .create(params[:e.g])?

Many thanks

Ross

Answer 1

In your controller – EventsController:

class EventsController < ApplicationController

  def new
    @event = Event.new
    @events_created = Event.all # to show the events created

In your view – events/new.html.haml:

- @events_created.each do |created_event|
  %p= "Event: " created_event.title

= form_for @event do |f|
  =.... # new event creation form