19 Jul 22:48
Polymorphic associations and forms
From: Spike Grobstein <rails-mailing-list@...>
Subject: Polymorphic associations and forms
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails
Date: 2008-07-19 20:49:43 GMT
Subject: Polymorphic associations and forms
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails
Date: 2008-07-19 20:49:43 GMT
Hi, I've got an issue where I'm creating a form in my view where the user can add a Sponsorship to an Event (m2m relationship using has_many :through). A Sponsorship belongs to an event and also belongs to a sponsor. The sponsor is a polymorphic relationship with either a Partner or a Company. So I have these columns set up: Event id name date Sponsorship event_id sponsor_type sponsor_id I created a view, much like in railscasts 3-part complex forms tutorial where I can dynamically add and remove sponsorships for the event, and there's a <select> field for choosing whether the sponsorship is for a Partner or Company and then I have 2 more <select> fields, one with a list of Partners and one with a list of Companies. I set up virtual attributes in the Event model for :company_id and :partner_id and I have logic in that model as well which wires everything up the best I can (because of the way this is working, I couldn't figure out how to make everything work like magic as in the railscast, but I did get that working for a non-polymorphic relationship elsewhere in the project).(Continue reading)
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