Maybe you can look at these screencasts and learn how to dynamically add form elements using javascript and then adapt it for your case as needed.
http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-part-1 http://railscasts.com/episodes/197-nested-model-form-part-2 http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-revised On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2013, at 11:20 AM, NN Dodhia wrote: > > > Hi i'm fairly new to ruby on rails and i'm creating a form using > simple_form and in one bit i have radio buttons and say i have 3 buttons > a,b,c so i want it to be if a is pressed then certain text fields show, and > if b is pressed a different set of text fields show and similarly for c. > Can anyone help me on this? > > This is a JavaScript thing, not really specific to Rails. Coincidentally, > I just made this sort of behavior in a Drupal site this morning. For this > form, there were fields that made sense for postal mail subscribers that > did not make sense for email subscribers. So I added a classname to each of > the field wrappers -- either 'postal' or 'email' and used that to make my > behavior work: > > http://jsfiddle.net/rk3vw/3/ > > This is using Prototype, I am sure you can use jQuery or "vanilla" > JavaScript if that's your thing. > > Walter > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/8I3DBjMWlC0J. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.