Application with dynamically/custom fields

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Hi, I’m having trouble to create an application with dynamic fields. Could you guys help me out? I’m not gonna write everything again, here’s the stack overflow post and a gist with what I got working and what’s not.

The links have the same content:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36449947/application-with-dynamically-custom-fields

https://gist.github.com/jonatasbaldin/906673980f847b30ec2cf6951dcb136e/edit

Thank you!

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You’ll want to read up on fields_for, which will help you build the required HTML inputs. I’d also recommend the Railscast on this topic: #196 Nested Model Form (revised) - RailsCasts

Some other general notes on your Gist:

  • has_many associations should be plural. Things will usually work with them named otherwise, but you may encounter odd behavior.

  • the data model doesn’t seem quite right - custom_field_infos should have a contact_id column and a custom_field_id column (to indicate which contact & field this record has data for). It shouldn’t need a user_id column unless there’s something else going on that’s not mentioned in the Gist.

–Matt Jones