Complex Forms

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I am wondering if someone may be able to point me in the right direction.

I have a survey that I am trying to do that has in it many one too many relegations. Thanks to railscasts complex forms series, I was able to get them all working. I have come to a road block and hoping someone can help. The survey capture a companies profile, where things get sticky is I now need to create a relationship that will allow a user to enter in categories of products that the company deals with. Here is the predefined list.

* Wood based panels * Complete pre-fabricated buildings and houses * Wood kitchen cabinets * Wood windows and doors * Wood flooring * Millwork * Mouldings * Engineered wood products * Other wood based building products * PVC windows * Steel doors * Insulation * Stone-processed products * Basement envelope systems * Other non-wood building products

This list is set in stone and no others can be added by the user. So a company can have many categories. Also I need to add a relation ship to allow users to add products to each category with details on each product.

I am not sure on how to approach this as well I am very new to Rails. I come from a coldfusion background. If it would help, I could send you any existing code I have.

I hope someone can help, Thanks in advance!

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for the first part, why not use a has_and_belongs_to_many :categories association in the Company model, and a multiple select box which allows the user to select one or more categories for the company.

For the second part, make a form which allows the user to select the category from a drop down list of options.

Or are you trying to do everything in a single form?

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I was hoping to do every thing in the same form but I am thinking it might be over my head