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Kim
Kim

Reputation: 2176

ruby on rails- nested attributes for 'has_one' relationship

I need some help concerning nested attributes in models with 'has_one' relationship.

Model Survey has 1 question Model Question has 1 answer

How do i build the 'answer' in the code below

def new
  @survey = Survey.new
   @survey.build_question # build one question
    @survey.question.answer.build #this part is not working

end

Please can anybody tell me how to build the answer as the code "@survey.question.answer.build" is not correct.

Many many thanks for your help

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2563

Answers (2)

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 43153

@survey = Survey.new
@survey.question = Question.new
@survey.question.answer = Answer.new
@survey.question.answer = (whatever)
@survey.save!

(or just @survey.save if you don't want to see exceptions)

If you want to make it easier to access these as instance variables in your view you can assign any of them to a variable after you've created them, and the association will be maintained:

@question = @survey.question

It's up to you.

Upvotes: 1

Andy Lindeman
Andy Lindeman

Reputation: 12165

You must build the answer on the newly created Question instance since it's not yet been saved.

@survey = Survey.new
@question = @survey.build_question
@answer = @question.build_answer
# ... at some point in the future
@survey.save

Upvotes: 2

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