Help with habtm models in one form

[Fatih Genç]

Hi I have a post and a category model

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base

has_and_belongs_to_many :categories

end
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base

has_and_belongs_to_many :posts

end

I created join table migration files

Now I wanna create category while creating post I mean user can choose category or add a new category to this post how can i imlement this?

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[Navjeet Chabbewal]

I did something like this in the past in a similar situation.

I have a drop down of categories that has all the valid categories and
an additional category injected as 'New Category'. When you user selects
the 'New Category' from the drop down, I display another textbox (I did
this with ajax call) for the user to provide new category name. In the
controller if this new_category param is detected than a new category is
created first before creating the post associated with that new
category.

-Navjeet

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