hi guys,
I been trying to find out on how to validate the presence of foreign keys/associated objects and the threads that talk about this are rather dated and unanswered. I looked at
1) http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/f8175db2a8321750/d565496a3672f19f?lnk=gst&q=validates+presence+foreign#d565496a3672f19f 2) http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/cff66eead0e5580b/c032b19f1832b2e0?lnk=gst&q=validates+presence+foreign#c032b19f1832b2e0
Consider this:
class Part < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :brand belongs_to :category belongs_to :sub_category belongs_to :user belongs_to :status has_many :fits has_many :images, :dependent => :destroy
validates_presence_of :title, :description, :category, :location, :contact_name, :contact_number, :condition end
class Brand < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :designs validates_presence_of :name end
class Fit < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :Part belongs_to :Brand
validates_presence_of :part_id
end
When I hit the "submit" button to purposely try and create a new "Fit" object without selected a Brand (the brand is a drop down box) and the Part ID is a hidden field, no errors come up.
How do I validate the presence of the "Part ID" (or part object) within the Fit model? I tried putting " validates_presence_of :part_id" and it does not work.
Any ideas, guys?
thanks
