Question

I know how to do that with nested attributes (http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-part-1?autoplay=true) but now I’m trying to do it without nested attributes.

I would like to have a table with something like this…

first_name last_name phone
|        |          |     |
|        |          |     |
|        |          |     |
save

So it’s a table and there is a field inside every cell. If you add three people to the table and then hit save, there will be 3 people save to the database.

Answer 1

This is probably not the best solution possible, but you can do something like

- 5.times do 
  = fields_for 'users[]' do |f|
    = f.text_field :first_name

and then params[:users] will contain an array. The controller action will look something like

params[:users].each do |user|
  User.create!(user)
end