Form should insert on 2Tables in my DB

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Hi to you!

I'm writing my first webapp with ruby on rails. And I like it so far.

My problem is: I have a form and if I create a db-record, that works fine. But I want to create 2 records on 2 different tables (with one form).

Example (a phone book app): I have a table person and a table place.

On the form "new person" I have the fields Name, first name.... and the field place. Now I want to insert the Name, first name... on the table person and insert the new place on the table place.

Questions: Is that possible? How should the form look like? How can I handle this in the controller?

Thank you for your help!

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As so often, there are many ways to do this. You can use a form_for and add some additional fields or build the whole form with a simple form_tag

the most simple form for a client with a name and an additional address record would look like this

<% form_tag(admin_clients_path) do %>   <%= text_field :client, :name, :size => 20 %>   <%= text_field :address , :city, :size => 40 %> <% end %>

in you controller you get params as this params[:client][:name] params[:address][:city]

and can do the common stuff like Client.new(params[:client]) Address.new(params[:address])