Rails Nested Object Form *_attributes problem

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My model code is:

class Person < Party   has_one :name, :class_name => "PersonName"   accepts_nested_attributes_for :name, :allow_destroy => true end

class PersonName < ActiveRecord::Base   belongs_to :person end

My view code looks like this (I'm using HAML):

%h3 New customer = error_messages_for :person, :person_name, :name, :country

- form_for :person, :url => collection_url, :html => {:class => 'MainForm'} do |person_form|

  - @person.build_name unless @person.name   - person_form.fields_for :name do |name_form|     = name_form.label :given_name, "First Name:"     = name_form.text_field :given_name

    = name_form.label :family_name, "Last Name:"     = name_form.text_field :family_name

  = hidden_field_tag :inviter_id, params[:inviter_id]   = hidden_field_tag :inviter_code, params[:inviter_code]   %p= submit_tag "Create"

= link_to 'Back', collection_url

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Hi Damon, this is quite an unusual error as the '_attributes' suffix is hard coded to be appended when the record object responds to symbol + '_attributes=' (where symbol in this case is 'name'). I would check to make sure that person_form.object is definitely the @person object. Especially as it looks like you are setting @name in the controller for the error_messages_for. In fact I think posting the controller code would be quite useful if you're still stuck.

Best regards, Andrew