Question

I have the project organized in this way: User is the main resource, each user has one profile and each profile has one location as following:

 resources :users do    
    resource :profile, :controller => "profiles" do
      resource :location
end

Now I have to build a form for insert all the profile information but the location information as well (address etc).
If I write the following code, it doesn’t take care about the location.

<%= form_for(@profile, :url=>{:action=>'update'}, :html => {:multipart => true}) do |f| %>

Do someone have some suggestion for this situation ?

Tnx

Answer 1

If you want to access different models within the same form you can use accepts_nested_attributes_for. Here is a great screencast about the topic: http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-part-1

Your code should something like this.

#profile.rb

accepts_nested_attributes_for :location

In your view:

<%= form_for(@profile, :url=>{:action=>'update'}, :html => {:multipart => true}) do |f| %>
   <%= f.fields_for :location do |l| %>
     //location fields here, for example:
     <%=l.text_field :city %>
   <% end %>
<% end %>