Question

I’m not sure if I’m asking this question right or am just too tired for it to be obvious.

My code is:

_form.html.haml

 = f.collection_select :category, Category.where(:user_id => current_user.id), :id, :name

What I get is

 ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in LinksController#create
 Category(#70203963939880) expected, got String(#70203929255820)

Log is

 Started POST "/links" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-12 22:14:05 -0800
 Processing by LinksController#create as HTML
 Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"z4RYcUW3hGLfKBAwQLMZbye2I1mn16fg6BSBGe7GILU=", "link"=>{"name"=>"SFGate", "url"=>"http://www.sfgate.com/", "category"=>"1"}, "commit"=>"Save"}
 Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 0ms

It appears as though its passing :id as a string instead of an integer. Any clues?

Update:

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :links

  attr_accessible :name, :color, :position

  COLOR_CODES = ["Green", "Blue", "Yellow", "Orange", "Red", "Purple", "Pink"]
end

class Link < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :category

  attr_accessible :category, :name, :position, :url, :user_id
end

Fixed: I had

 t.integer :category 

instead of

 t.integer :category_id 

switched everything over and its working perfect – I guess I was too tired 🙂

Answer 1

You should change:

f.collection_select :category, Category.where(:user_id => current_user.id), :id, :name

to:

f.collection_select :category_id, Category.where(:user_id => current_user.id), :id, :name