Hi,
A couple of related questions...
On p334 of The Rails 3 Way there's an example that looks like this:
form_for :client, person, :url => {:action => "update"} do |f|
which it is claimed allows you to use a different name, 'client' for person in the params hash.
I haven't been able to get this to work, however in looking at the API documentation here: ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper
I see an example that uses a different syntax, like this:
form_for(@person, :as => :client) do |f|
which does work for me as advertised.
However I also see that the Rails 2.3.8 documentation does have an example with the first syntax, which makes me think the API was changed, though I haven't been able to find any explicit discussion of this anywhere. Curiously, my experimentation finds that the original syntax still works on fields_for.
Can someone confirm for me that the example in TR3W is wrong and that the syntax for form_for was changed in 3.x, but not for fields_for. If that is so, what is the rationale for using different approaches in the two different methods?
Second question... on p337 there's an example that looks like this:
form_for "person" do |f|
which is intended to generate id-indexed attribute keys in the params hash. Again, this doesn't work for me, for I think the same reason as above. It seems like the right way to do this would to create the form with the form_tag helper and then use
fields_for "person" do |f|
Again can someone please confirm for me that TR3W is wrong here.
Thanks for any help.