the answer is to be found here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html
On Sunday, June 30, 2013 2:56:59 PM UTC-4, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > Hi all, > > 0 down vote favorite > > > I have two models - "symbols" and "users". Among other attributes, > symbols has "created_by_id" and "updated_by_id" attributes which are > id's of users that created/updated a certain symbol entry. > > Let's say I want to display the symbols table with their "symbol" > attribute and the nested "created by" and "updated by" (user.username) > attributes for each symbol entry. Resulting table should look something > like this: > > symbol created_by updated_by > ------------------------------------ > symbol1 username1 username2 > symbol2 username1 username2 > > How can I achieve this? I guess I need accepts_nested_attributes_for > :user and probably has_one :user (?) in my Symbol model. Do I also need > belongs_to :user in my User model? > > After the models are set up properly, how can I access the username of > users associated with "created_by_id" and "updated_by_id" in my view? > > I have an edit form where I used nested form like this (which works > fine): > > <%= form_for @symbol do |f| %> > Symbol: > <%= f.text_field :symbol %> > <%= f.fields_for :kanji do |kf| %> > Meaning: > <%= kf.text_field :meaning %> > > Onyomi: > <%= kf.text_field :onyomi %> > > Kunyomi: > <%= kf.text_field :kunyomi %> > <% end %> > <%= f.submit "Save" %> > <% end %> > > but I couldn't figure out how to do something similar in this case where > I have two nested attributes associated with the same symbol. > > I'm new to rails so perhaps I got the whole idea of how to do this > wrong. If there is a better than what I just explained how I want to do > it, please correct me. > > Thank you > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > -- 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/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/266afa94-daf1-479b-abda-a83e637d5a93%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
