Ruby on Rails

On 29/12/10 21:11, Jim Burgess wrote:

Thanks for the answer Philip. It is good to get confirmation that I have understood things correctly.  

Yes.  And it only does this if the update to @employee was successful first. 

 Is the order particularly significant in this case (i.e. that it attempts to update @employee first)?  Obviously it would be bad to update one record and not the other, but won't rails throw an error and re-render the 'edit' view if validation  for either @employee or @employee.department fails?  

You should use 

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :department

in your employee model.

than you can just do:

<% form_for @employee do |form| %>    ...    <% form.fields_for @employee.department do |department_fields| %>     <p>       <%= department_fields.label :name,"Department name" %><br />       <%= department_fields.text_field :name %>     </p>   <% end %>    ...  <% end %>   

and with:

if @employee.update_attributes(params[:employee])   do something else   render :edit end   And I hope you will get, what you want to get. 

--  best regards Bente Pieck