Fifth time is the charm hopefully

On Jun 21, 10:23 am, Jeremy Savoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the need to keep track of each users budget in my application.
> I need to keep track of the actual dollar limit of the budget, as well
> as individual line items against the budget.
>
> I've set up two models, budget and budget line items.
>
> The budget model currently only contains 1 field, limit, which is the
> amount that the user has to spend.
>
> The budget_line_item model has the following fields:
>
>   fields do
>     name       :string
>     cost       :string
>     total_paid :string
>     amount_due :string
>     due_date   :date
>     timestamps
>   end
>
> The two models currently have no relation, not sure which they should
> have if any.
>
> "name" is the description of the line item. I'm not sure the best way
> to do currency math in Rails, so everything is a string right now.
>
> My question becomes, how can I display this all on one page. I already
> have a table-plus showing me the budget items in a ledger style
> format. I would like to display the budget limit amount in an aside,
> along with a number showing the total expense of all items in the
> budget_line_item model, and then a number showing the difference
> between those two.
>
> I also need a way to modify the budget limit, preferably in the aside.
>
> When I try to add an aside using the children hint for
> budget_line_items, I get nothing ....
>
> Any recommendations here?

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