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Ryan Trimble
15,559 PointsRails Model Association Question....
Looking for a guide or assistance on how to do something in Ruby on Rails.
I have two models, "Restaurants" and "Menus" which are associated. Restaurants has_many Menus and Menu belongs_to Restaurant. These are working properly, as I can reference each from the other, however I'm not quite sure how to go about creating them properly.
Right now I can create a new Menu and tell it a restaurants ID to associate that menu to a restaurant, but it would be much better if I could select the restaurant first, then the menu would automatically know which restaurant to associate it with. Something like on the restaurant's show page it would have a link that says "Create New Menu" and clicking that link would load the menu create form, but it would already know which Restaurant the menu should belong to.
Hopefully this makes sense!!
Any assistance would be great!
1 Answer
Pedro Henrique Knoll Giacometo
6,669 PointsRyan,
It's difficult to answer without understand more your goals.
But a good start is to search for accepts_nested_attributes_for at the rails api.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/NestedAttributes/ClassMethods.html
Then you can watch the railscast about how to setup the forms.