On Apr 7, 2:19 pm, John Catalyne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > > I guess it's expecting me to build the city instance in the controller?
correct. field_for on an association that has nested attributes turned on renders its block for each associated object. > The way I got it to work is by doing this in my model: > > def city_attributes=(attribs) > self.city = City.find(attribs[:id]) > end > > Is there no other way? It might be easier to just have a city_id virtual attribute rather than trying to bend accepts_nested_attributes_for (given that you are currently overriding all of the stuff it gives you) Fred > > -- > Posted viahttp://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-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.