Question

I have the following:

app/models/order.rb

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :client    
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :client
end

app/models/client.rb

class Client < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :orders
end

When an Order is being saved I’d like to

• Check if there an existing Client with an email specified
• If exists, choose it for the Order
• If not, create a Client with the provided attribute and link it to my Order

Should I use before_save for the Client or what’s the best way of achieving it?

Thanks fellows!

======== SOLVED! ========

Answer 1

Thanks to Fishz I played around and found the following solution:

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base

    before_validation :check_client_existance

    def check_client_existance
       if client = Client.find_by_email(self.client.email)
          self.client = client
       end 
    end

end

Thanks =)