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Tintin81
Tintin81

Reputation: 10207

How to add default values to nested items in a Rails controller?

In the Sign up form of my Rails 6 application an Account with a nested User can be created.

class AccountsController < ApplicationController

  def new
    @account = Account.new
    @account.users.build(
      :owner => true,
      :language => "FR"
    )
  end

  def create
    @account = Account.new(account_params)
    if @account.save
      redirect_to root_url, :notice => "Account created."
    else
      render :new
    end
  end

private

  def account_params
    safe_attributes = [
      :name,
      :users_attributes => [:first_name, :last_name, :email, :password, :owner, :language]
    ]
    params.require(:account).permit(*safe_attributes)
  end

end

What is the best way to define default values on the new user here?

Right now, I use hidden_fields for the default values in my sign up form thus making them publicly available. This is of course not what I want because it's very insecure.

Is there a better way to deal with this?

I know that there's Rails' with_defaults method but I couldn't get it to work on nested items so far.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 999

Answers (1)

blazpie
blazpie

Reputation: 312

try with:

account_params[:users_attributes] = account_params[:users_attributes].with_defaults({ first_name: 'John', last_name: 'Smith'})

in first line of create action

Upvotes: 1

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