2009/9/25 Dudebot <craign...@gmail.com>: > > Thanks super, Colin--that really helps. I believe category_id is > being passed, as in the development.log > > Processing ItemsController#update (for ::1 at 2009-09-25 06:34:23) > [PUT] > Parameters: {"commit"=>"Update", ... "id"=>"228", "item"=> > {..."category_id"=>["2"], ...}}
This looks a bit odd, why is it passing the id as a single element array I wonder? See below > [4;35;1mPage Load (1.1ms) [0m [0mSELECT * FROM "pages" ORDER BY > position [0m > [4;36;1mUser Load (0.6ms) [0m [0;1mSELECT * FROM "users" WHERE > ("users"."id" = 1) LIMIT 1 [0m > [4;35;1mItem Load (0.7ms) [0m [0mSELECT * FROM "items" WHERE > ("items"."id" = 228) [0m > Redirected to http://localhost:3000/items/228 > Completed in 102ms (DB: 2) | 302 Found [http://localhost/items/228] > > and for different updates, the number in category_id [ ] is changing. > In my controller, I have the provided boilerplate for update: > > def update > �...@item = Item.find( params[ :id ] ) > > respond_to do |format| > if @item.update_attributes(params[:item]) > ... > > Am I missing something in the controller? Does a collection need to > be handled separately? > > Many TIA, > Craig > > On Sep 25, 2:36 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 2009/9/25 Dudebot <craign...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi Gurus, I'm trying to tackle a drop down list. I have category and >> > item dbs, and they're wired up with category has_many :items and item >> > belongs_to :category, and an item has a category_id. I have this code >> > in my new/edit.html.erb for item: >> >> > <%= f.collection_select :category_id, >> > Category.find_main, :id, :header, {}, :multiple => false %> I don't see anything wrong with this. >> >> > And a pretty drop down list comes up, but no matter what I do, I can't >> > save an item with a different category--it always stubbornly records >> > the same one (or doesn't change it at all). The source html code >> > generated is: >> >> > <select id="item_category_id" name="item[category_id][]"><option There is the problemI think, the extra set of [] for item[category_id]. Are you sure you have item belongs_to :category? It is as if it thinks there should be an array of id values. Colin >> > value="3">Awesome Things</option> >> > <option value="1" selected="selected">Good Things</option> >> > <option value="2">Better Things</option></select> >> >> > ...and although I can "choose" a different category for an item than >> > 'Good Things', it only records 'Good Things' (category_id 1) for all >> > items. >> >> The first thing to do is to look in your log file (log/developent.log) >> to check that the selection is being passed in params. If it is then >> consider whether what the controller action that you are passing it to >> is doing with it. >> >> Colin > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---