creating two activerecords with one form

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There must be a better way of doing this.

If website.save fails...I'm stuck with the new domain, thats not associated to a website.

  def create     website = Website.new(params[:website])     website.domain = Domain.create(params[:domain])     if website.save       :flash[:notice] = Server.create_website website       redirect_to :action => 'list'     else       render :action => 'new'     end   end

2

This is a good tutorial on the subject:

...also check out parts 2 and 3 of this lesson.

--Andrew

3

For that you need to use transaction method so that if one save fails due to any reason then whole transaction should roll back. Something like this:

def create     website = Website.new(params[:website])     website.domain = Domain.create(params[:domain])     begin       Website.transaction do          # the ! in save method is needed to raise any exceptions          website.save!          website.domain.save!        end       :flash[:notice] = Server.create_website website       redirect_to :action => 'list'     rescue       flash[:notice] = "Your error message"       render :action => 'new'     end   end

Hope that helps....

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