On 1 July 2013 19:15, Rick <richard.t.ll...@gmail.com> wrote: > the answer is to be found here: > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html
Also work right through a good tutorial such as railstutorial.org (which is free to use online). This will show you the basics of Rails. Colin > > > 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. > > -- 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/CAL%3D0gLvceFzHAe1w%3DFsr%2BM6KnKNPc%2B%2BJbieY2pST-j6MZxtYzw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
