Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a frustrating problem -- I've got two models, drivers and incidents. A driver can have many incidents and the form for drivers includes a section for incidents (using fields_for). However, a driver can also have zero incidents, so on the form there is a radio button that shows/hides the incidents stuff. My problem is that I need it to validate ONLY if the user has specified that radio button to true. Here's what I have set up:
driver.rb ... has_many :incidents accepts_nested_attributes_for :incidents, :allow_destroy => true ...
incident.rb ... belongs_to :driver bunch of validations ...
drivers_controller.rb (create) ... params_hash = params[:driver] unless params[:driver][:suspended_or_revoked] == "true" params_hash.delete('incidents_attributes') @driver = Driver.new(params_hash) else @driver = Driver.new(params[:driver]) end ..
What I try to do is delete the incidents_attributes hash from the driver params, assuming that since it's not submitting any data to incidents, it won't go through the validations. However, it DOES go through the validations, regardless of if I have that hash in there or not.
Basically, I'm trying to bypass the validations for incidents (and prevent creating incident objects) if the driver selected "no" to the [:driver][:suspended_or_revoked] question. I know that the condition in the controller is working, as I've done some logger.debug stuff to make sure it's going to the right blocks.
From what I've researched, this is the standard way to do this, but it doesn't seem to work (at least in Rails 3.1) .... can somebody point me in the right direction here?
Any and all help is appreciated 
Thanks, - Jeff
