Hi, I'm trying to understand some code in a book I'm reading and was hoping someone could tell me if I have understood it correctly.
There are two models, an employee model and a department model. A department has_many :employees and an employee belongs_to :department. Here's a snippet of code from the form to edit an existing employee: <% fields_for( @employee.department) do |department_f| %> <p> <%= department_f.label :name,"Department name" %><br /> <%= department_f.text_field :name %> </p> <% end %> The form is submitted to the update action of 'employees_controller.rb', where there is the following code: if @employee.update_attributes(params[:employee]) && @employee.department.update_attributes(params[:department]) ... employee successfully updated ... end My question is about the line "@employee.department.update_attributes(params[:department])" Is it correct to say that this code updates the attributes (in this case "name") of the Department object that is linked (via the "has_many" and "belongs_to" relationship) to the Employee object currently being edited? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@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.