Problem passing id of parent model to child

[why-el]

Hey fellas,

I have an Organization model with many projects. I have a link to a new project from the organization's show view, like so: new_organization_project_path (@organization). I was hoping Rails would get the id of the organization from the instance I am passing and populate project.organization_id, but to no avail. The db rollbacks back and get redirected to the new project page. Any ideas? How would you normally do this? 

Best, 

[Linus Pettersson]

What path do you get? It should be something like "/organizations/:id/projects/new". This is where you can add a form for example to add a new project.

Do you try to POST to that path above? If so, that's wrong (it's for GET requests). Read more about nested resources here:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#nested-resources

//Linus

[Colin Law]

Have a look at the the Rails Guide on debugging. It will show you
techniques that you can use to debug your code.
Hint - start by looking in development.log to see what action is
called and what the parameters are.

Colin

[why-el]

Yes that's what I get as a path. I have solved this issue. Its silly really, it turns out I needed to make an @organization instance available throughout my projectsController, so I made a before filter to fetch it based on the url. 

Quick question though, do I need to update all the controller methods to reference the parent model whenever I have a one to many relationship like this one (changing everything to @organization.projects.someMethod)? This looks tedious to me. Does Rails help with this?  

[Colin Law]

On 1 November 2012 23:32, why-el <wael.kh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes that's what I get as a path. I have solved this issue. Its silly really,
> it turns out I needed to make an @organization instance available throughout
> my projectsController, so I made a before filter to fetch it based on the
> url.

As a beginner I suggest you work through a good tutorial on Rails to
give you understanding of the basics. railstutorial.org is good and
is free to use online.

>
> Quick question though, do I need to update all the controller methods to
> reference the parent model whenever I have a one to many relationship like
> this one (changing everything to @organization.projects.someMethod)? This
> looks tedious to me. Does Rails help with this?

I don't understand the question. Can you give a particular example?

Colin

>
>
> On Thursday, November 1, 2012 9:12:00 PM UTC, Linus Pettersson wrote:
>>
>> What path do you get? It should be something like
>> "/organizations/:id/projects/new". This is where you can add a form for
>> example to add a new project.
>>
>> Do you try to POST to that path above? If so, that's wrong (it's for GET
>> requests). Read more about nested resources here:
>> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#nested-resources
>>
>> //Linus
>>
>>
>> Den torsdagen den 1:e november 2012 kl. 22:02:36 UTC+1 skrev why-el:
>>>
>>> Hey fellas,
>>>
>>> I have an Organization model with many projects. I have a link to a new
>>> project from the organization's show view, like so:
>>> new_organization_project_path (@organization). I was hoping Rails would get
>>> the id of the organization from the instance I am passing and populate
>>> project.organization_id, but to no avail. The db rollbacks back and get
>>> redirected to the new project page. Any ideas? How would you normally do
>>> this?
>>>
>>> Best,
>

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