On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Butu <but...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Bryan for your reply. > > For first part of my problem, I am able to figure out the nested attributes > with belongs_to. > > For second part, I am looking for Rails way solution to my problem. > > Using nested attribute. I can able to create Movie if it does not exist. > And able to associate it with song model (movie_id populated correctly) > work really good by rails way. I want this behavior. > > *But when movie already exist. I want to associate that movie id with the > new song to be created using accepts_nested_attributes_for.* > * > * >
you can't. accepts_nested_attributes_for doesn't work on belongs_to attribute. > ** > Thanks! > Butu > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Bryan Crossland > <bacrossl...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Butu, >> >> You should look at before_create in ActiveRecord. I think it would be >> better if you put on in your Song Model that calls private function to >> check whether the passed in Movie name exists or not. If it doesn't, >> create it and if it does exist do nothing. >> >> Thanks, >> >> B. >> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Butu <but...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Here is my model looks like:- >> > Model: Movie >> > has_many :songs >> > Model: Song >> > belongs_to :movie >> > I have a songs/new form which contains song name and movie name input >> field. >> > If movie name does not exist it should create a new one else it should >> use >> > already existing one. So this I will come to know only after user enter >> in >> > movie name field. >> > Can I achieve this using nested attributes of rails 3? >> > Note: I can able to implement the same in has_many association but not >> in >> > this case. >> > Thanks! >> > Butu >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> > >> > > -- > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.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-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.
