retrieve value from text_field and save it in another model

HI,

      I am very new to rails.

Any help from your side will be very helpful.

I have two models Child.rb and Filtersetting.rb I have written the code for inserting into both models with many rows at the same time. It works fine. The issue is that I need the childname entered correspondingly by the user to be transferred to the Filtersetting table.

How could i do this. Any ideas from your side in this regard will be very supportive. I have spent around full two days on this.But no progress.

Please could anyone help me in this regard.

The code is as follows.

class ChildrenController < ApplicationController

  layout 'standard'

  def index     parent_id = session[:user].id     @children = Child.find(:all, :conditions => ["parent_id = ?", parent_id])    if @children.empty?       flash[:notice] = "No child set"    end     respond_to do |format|       format.html # index.html.erb       format.xml { render :xml => @children }     end   end

  def new     @children = Array.new(3) { Child.new }     @filters = Array.new(3) { Filtersetting.new }   end

  def create     @children = params[:children].values.collect { |child| Child.new(child) }     @filters = params[:filters].values.collect { |filter| Filtersetting.new(filter) }   if @filters.all?(&:valid?)

     @filters.each(&:save!) end   if @children.all?(&:valid?)          @children.each(&:save!)          redirect_to :action => 'index'     else         render :action => 'new'     end

  end

end

The view is

<h1>Apply Children Settings</h1>

<%= start_form_tag :action => 'create' %> <table align="left"> <% @children.each_with_index do |child, index| %>      <tr> <td><% fields_for "children[#{index}]", child do |f| %>          Childname: <%= f.text_field :childname %>          <%= f.hidden_field :parent_id, :value => current_user.id %>

       <% end %></td></tr> <% end %> </table> <table align="right"> <% @filters.each_with_index do |filter, index| %>      <tr><td> <% fields_for "filters[#{index}]", filter do |f| %>          Filtering Level: <%= f.collection_select(:levelid, Level.find(:all), :id, :levelname) %>

      <% end %></td></tr> <% end %> </table> <p>     <%= submit_tag "Submit" %>   </p> <% end_form_tag %>

<%= link_to 'Back', children_path %>

The issue is I want to store the childname and childid in Filtersetting table. That is the first childname and childid corresponding to first one in Filtersetting table.

I tried out with array and observe field but in vain. Kindly help me in this regard please.

Regards, Swarna

I'm not quite sure what you're after, but my guess is you want to associate children and filtersetting objects. Have you set up an association in the model files?

I have two models Child.rb and Filtersetting.rb I have written the code for inserting into both models with many rows at the same time. It works fine. The issue is that I need the childname entered correspondingly by the user to be transferred to the Filtersetting table.

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