Accessing Member Object Methods

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Hello,

     I am hoping one of you Rails gurus can help a poor newb.

     I have a User model and a Contact model. The user Model has_one :contact. I would like to use the users/new view to create a new user as well as the related contact. However I can't figure out how to add the appropriate text_fields to the form to about info for the related contact. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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At your controller:

class UsersController < ApplicationController

    def new         @user = User.new         @contact = @user.build_contact     end

    def create         @user = User.new( params[:user] )         @contact = @user.build_contact( params[:contact] )         if @user.valid? and @contact.valid?             @user.save             @contact.save             respond_to do |format|                 format.html do                     flash[:notice] = "User saved"                     redirect_to users_path                 end             end         else             render :action => 'new'         end     end

end

At your new.html.erb

<% form_for @user do |f| %>

    Login: <%= f.text_field :login %> <br/>     Email: <%= f.text_field :email %> <br/>

    <% fields_for :contact do |g| %>        Name: <%= text_field :email %>        Address: <%= text_area :address %>     <% end %>

<% end %>

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At your new.html.erb

<% form_for @user do |f| %>

Login: &lt;%= f\.text\_field :login %&gt; &lt;br/&gt;
Email: &lt;%= f\.text\_field :email %&gt; &lt;br/&gt;

&lt;% fields\_for :contact do |g| %&gt;
   Name: &lt;%= text\_field :email %&gt;
   Address: &lt;%= text\_area :address %&gt;
&lt;% end %&gt;

Um, those last two should be g.text_field .

<% end %>

See STEPHEN CHU . com: Boost your Rails Controller params[:fu] for an excellent series of blog posts detailing this and other similar tricks.

Best,