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Certainly you only need to specify the associations you need to use.

Colin
On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 14:44, John Sanderbeck <bandor535@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmmm... That may work...
>
> I would always be accessing assessment.data_entries for any lists or views. Reasons and Consequences are basically select criteria for each data entry.
> I would never reference reason.data_entries or consequence.data_entries
>
> a has_many :data_entries, :through: :assessment may work though... Let me give that a shot...
>
> Now to figure out how to structure it... :-)
>
> On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 7:12:45 AM UTC-4, John Sanderbeck wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on a project that has the following setup
>>
>> I have a table called Assessment
>>
>> for each assessment there can be different reasons and consequences defined for that assessment
>>
>> then for each assessment the teacher takes multiple data entries over a period of time
>>
>> each data entry can choose multiple reasons and consequences from the ones defined in the assessment
>>
>> So you have assessment
>> has_many :reasons
>> accepts_nested_attributes_for :reasons
>> has_many :consequences
>> accepts_nested_attributes_for :consequences
>> has_many :data_entries
>> accepts_nested_attributes_for :data_entries
>>
>> Then reasons
>> belongs_to :assessment
>> has_and_belongs_to_many :data_entries
>>
>> Then consequences
>> belongs_to :assessment
>> has_and_belongs_to_many :data_entries
>>
>> Finally data_entries
>> belong to assessment
>> has_and_belongs_to_many :reasons
>> has_and_belongs_to_many :consequences
>>
>> There is also a join table for reasons to data_entries, and consequences to data_entries
>>
>> The nested table works fine for the reasons, consequences, and the base data_entries
>>
>> however what I cannot get to work is the reasons and consequences chosen in the data_entries
>>
>> what appears to be happening in params is that assessment comes back with data_entries_attributes under it
>> however there is also a data_entry param coming back as well, so it is not part of assessment, so the nest is wrong somehow...
>>
>> I have this working in other places however this nest is one level deeper than the others...
>>
>> The way I have the nested form section setup is this...
>>
>> <td>
>> <div class="multi-column">
>> <ul>
>> <% @assessment.reasons.each do |reason| -%>
>> <ul>
>> <%= check_box_tag('data_entry[reason_ids][]', reason.id, @assessment.reason_ids.include?(reason.id), :multiple => true) %>
>> <span rel="tooltip" title="<%= reason.assessment_id %>"><%= reason.name %></span>
>> </ul>
>> <% end %>
>> </ul>
>> </div>
>> </td>
>> <td>
>> <div class="multi-column">
>> <ul>
>> <% @assessment.consequences.each do |consequence| -%>
>> <ul>
>> <%= check_box_tag('data_entry[consequence_ids][]', consequence.id, @assessment.consequence_ids.include?(consequence.id), :multiple => true) %>
>> <span rel="tooltip" title="<%= consequence.assessment_id %>"><%= consequence.name %></span>
>> </ul>
>> <% end %>
>> </ul>
>> </div>
>> </td>
>>
>>
>> John
>
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