Question

I am wondering if its possible to keep the relationship and build two controllers in the same time?

Let me explain I have two models and the relationship is has follow:

Users, Locations
Users has many locations
Locations belongs_to users

I am not sure if I should add virtual field, and if so how, to the users form when creating a new user and then send longitude and latitude attribute as parameters in order to do following in my controller:

UserController#new

@users= User.new
@location = User.locations.build(params[:latitude,:longitude])
...

Here are my two questions:

1. Is this the right approach?
2. How do I create virtual field/hidden field used only for this time only.

Thank you

Answer 1

Write attr_accessor :latitude, :longitude in Location model.

attr_accessor makes reader and writer methods for Model/class objects