Question

In my rails app, I have a relation between User table (which is dedicated to authentication purpose) and Store table (which contains store information, like the name, description,…).

I mapped the two models like this:

• User has_one :store

• Store belongs_to :user

In the registration phase, I need to ask for both authentication information (I’m using Devise gem) like email and password, and the store name. This mean that I would like to fill two connected tables (User and Store) using the same form!

How does the ERB (or Haml) form looks like, especially for the Store Name part?

I tried this, but it doesn’t work (more specifically, the line asking for store name):

= form_for(resources, :as => resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name)) do |f|
    = f.text_field :store[:name]
    = f.email_field :email
    = f.password_field :password
    = f.submit "Create"

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

You can use fields_for:

= f.fields_for :store do |store_field|
  = store_field.text_field :name

And in your User model:

accepts_nested_attributes_for :store