This is a beginning Rails question. I have two models, Member and Organization, in a one-to-many association. (An Organization can have many Members.) The problem is I'm not sure how to design a view/controller that allows the user to associate an existing Member to an Organization. One way is to create a big HTML Select tag containing Member.all, and allow the user to pick the Member he wants to add. This is easy to do, but there could be hundreds or even thousands of Members, so it's not very scalable.
An alternative idea is to create a separate "ChooseMemberController" and pop up its view in a new browser window. The view would show a paginated list of all Members, which solves the scalability problem. But I don't know how to communicate the user's selection back to the original calling controller. Also, a pop-up window might not be the best user experience. I've been searching for any tips on handling this situation. All I've found is this Rails Recipe<http://media.pragprog.com/titles/fr_arr/multiple_models_one_form.pdf>, which is very close to what I'm trying to do, but unfortunately it doesn't show how to pick an item from a potentially large table. Can anyone point me to an example or give me some idea of how to implement this? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/HhEpl3CYXM4J. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en-US.
