I have a parent model called user and 2 nested models called award and certification. when I go to save a certification the model validation for award tells me that awards is blank, and when I got to save an award I get an error that says the validations for certification is blank. not sure what's going on.
here my user model
has_many :certifications, dependent: :destroy
has_many :awards, dependent: :destroy
# allows for nested attributes in the user views.
accepts_nested_attributes_for :work_histories, :qualifications, :certifications, :courses, :awards,
:languages, :patents, :publications, allow_destroy: true
here my award model
class Award < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :user
validates :award_name, :award_granted_by, :award_date, :award_description, presence: true
end
and my certification model
class Certification < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :user
validates :certification_name, :certification_authority, :certification_number, :certification_from,
:certification_to, presence: true
end
strong params in users_controller
def user_params
params.require(:user).permit( :first_name, :last_name, :email, :phone, :current_job_title, :password, :password_confirmation,
work_histories_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :job_title, :company, :description, :city, :state,:start_date, :end_date],
qualifications_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :education, :university, :university_major, :graduation_year, :currently_enrolled, :location],
awards_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :award_name, :award_granted_by, :award_date, :award_description],
certifications_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :certification_name, :certification_authority, :certification_number, :certification_from, :certification_to, :cert_never_expires],
courses_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :course_name, :course_number, :course_description],
languages_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :language, :language_proficiency],
patents_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :patent_title, :patent_office, :patent_number, :patent_status, :patent_date, :patent_description],
publications_attributes: [:user_id, :id, :_destroy, :publication_title, :publication_source, :publication_date, :publication_description] )
end
here's a part of the User form. I've got a button dropdown that has several options, when a user selects an option that particular div will be shown with a modal window.
<!-- one-to-many nested attributes -->
<%= form_for(#user) do |form| %>
<!-- a partial is rendered based on the user dropdown selection -->
<div id="award">
<%= render partial: "awards/new_award_modal", locals: { form: form } %>
</div>
<div id="cert">
<%= render partial: "certifications/new_certification_modal", locals: { form: form } %>
</div>
<%= form.submit 'Save', id: "submit-achievement", class: 'btn btn-primary form-control' %>
</div><!-- modal body -->
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
</div>
<% end %><!-- form_for -->
here is the partial for certifications
<div class="new_cert">
<%= form.fields_for :certifications, Certification.new do |cert_field| %>
<div class="field">
<%= cert_field.label :certification_name, 'Certification Title' %>
<%= cert_field.text_field :certification_name, class: "form-control" %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= cert_field.label :certification_authority %>
<%= cert_field.text_field :certification_authority, class: "form-control" %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= cert_field.label :certification_number %>
<%= cert_field.text_field :certification_number, class: "form-control" %>
</div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="field">
<%= cert_field.label :certification_from, "From" %><br />
<%= cert_field.date_select :certification_from,{ :order => [:day, :month, :year],
:start_year => Date.current.year, :end_year => 1960,
:prompt => {day: 'Day', month: 'Month', year: 'Year'}, :discard_day => true }, class: 'form-control' %>
</div>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td>
<div class="field">
<%= cert_field.label :certification_to, "To" %><br />
<%= cert_field.date_select :certification_to, { :order => [:day, :month, :year],
:start_year => Date.current.year + (10), :end_year => 1960,
:prompt => {day: 'Day', month: 'Month', year: 'Year'}, :discard_day => true }, class: 'form-control' %>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div>
<%= cert_field.label :cert_never_expires, "This certification does not expire", class: "l" %>
<%= cert_field.check_box :cert_never_expires, class: 'cb' %>
</div>
<br />
<% end %>
</div><!-- ./new_cert -->
here's the awards partial
<div class="new_award">
<!-- nested attributes for award modal -->
<%= form.fields_for :awards, Award.new do |award_field| %>
<div class="field">
<%= award_field.label :award_name, 'Award or Honor Name' %>
<%= award_field.text_field :award_name, class: "form-control" %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= award_field.label :award_granted_by, "Granted by" %>
<%= award_field.text_field :award_granted_by, class: "form-control" %>
</div>
<div class="field form-inline">
<%= award_field.label :award_date, 'Date' %><br />
<%= award_field.date_select :award_date, { :order => [:day, :month, :year],
:start_year => Date.current.year, :end_year => 1960,
:prompt => {day: 'Day', month: 'Month', year: 'Year'},
:discard_day => true }, class: 'form-control ds' %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= award_field.label :award_description, 'Description' %>
<%= award_field.text_area :award_description, class: "form-control" %>
</div>
<% end %><!-- ./fields_for -->
</div>
so both awards and certifications can be saved to the database without any issue when there are no validations. however, when I just do a simple validation checking for presence of an attribute in the form that's when things get weird. The award model is saying that the certification form is empty, which it should be because I'm submitting the award form. And the opposite is also true, when I go to submit a certification the award validation is triggered saying the award form is blank.
It would be best to see the specific error you're getting, but I'd make sure that your form is setting the nested attributes appropriately, and that your user controller has nested attributes setup within the strong parameters.
There's documentation in the Rails guides: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/StrongParameters.html
I am building an uploader for videos and giving the videos a category through categorizations. Every time I try to upload a video I receive an error saying
NameError in VideosController#create
uninitialized constant Video::Categorization
I want to able to add one category to each video. But no regardless of how I write the association I get the same error.
model
class Video < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :source, :title, :url, :description,
:category, :category_id, :category_list
belongs_to :user
has_many :category, through: :categorizations
has_many :categorizations
validates :category, presence: true
has_attached_file :source
def source_remote_url=(url_value)
self.source = URI.parse(url_value) unless url_value.blank?
super
end
def self.categorized_with(name)
Category.find_by_name!(name).videos
end
def category_list
["Action", "Anime",
"Arts and Culture", "Beauty", "Business", "Comedy",
"Documentary", "Drama",
"Food", "Gaming", "Health and Fitness", "Horror"]
end
def category_list=(names)
self.category = names.split(",").map do |n|
Category.where(name: n.strip).first_or_create!
end
end
end
Video Controller
class VideosController < ApplicationController
before_filter :authenticate_user!
before_filter :set_video, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
respond_to :html
def index
#videos = Video.all
end
def show
respond_with(#video)
end
def new
#video = Video.new
respond_with(#video)
end
def edit
end
def create
#video = Video.new(params[:video])
#video.save
respond_with(#video)
end
def update
#video.update_attributes(params[:video])
respond_with(#video)
end
def destroy
#video.destroy
respond_with(#video)
end
private
def set_video
#video = Video.find(params[:id])
end
end
Form
<%= form_for(#video) do |f| %>
<% if #video.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<h2><%= pluralize(#video.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this video from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
<% #video.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li><%= msg %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :title %><br />
<%= f.text_field :title %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :source %><br />
<%= f.file_field :source %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label "Category", class: 'control-label' %>
<%#= f.select :category, Category.all, :prompt => 'Select One' %>
<%= f.select :category_list, video_category, :prompt => "Select a category..." %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :description %><br />
<%= f.text_area :description, rows: 4, placeholder: "Description" %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit %>
</div>
<% end %>
If you declare
has_many :category, through: :categorizations
it should be
has_many :categories, through: :categorizations
I am runnning ruby 1.9.3 and rails 4.1.4
trying the following validations
in the models\profile.rb
attr_accessor :password
validates :name, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true, :length => { :in => 3..20 }
validates :password, :confirmation => true #password_confirmation attr
validates_length_of :password, :in => 6..20, :on => :create
before_save :encrypt_password
in view profiles\new.html.erb
from the form
<p>
<%= f.label :name %><br />
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :email %><br />
<%= f.text_field :email %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :password %><br />
<%= f.password_field :password %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :password_confirmation %><br />
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :interests %><br />
<%= f.text_area :interests %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :zip %><br />
<%= f.text_field :zip %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :country %><br />
<%= f.country_select :country, ["United Kingdom"] %> </p>
using strong parameters controllers\profile_controller,rb
class ProfilesController < ApplicationController
def new
#profile = Profile.new
end
def create
#profile = Profile.new(params[profile_params])
if #profile.save
flash[:notice] = "You signed up successfully"
flash[:color]= "valid"
else
flash[:notice] = "Form is invalid"
flash[:color]= "invalid"
end
render "new"
end
private
## Strong Parameters
def profile_params
params.require(:profile).permit(:name, :email, :password, :interests,:zip)
end
end
validations always fail saying fields are blank. By causing an exception the report shows model profile with its fields populated. It is as if the data is simply not accessible so I suspect I'm misuing strong parameters sonehow.
Any opinions welcomed.
The profile_params function is going to return a hash for you with the data directly.
What that basically does is it filters the params hash for the 'profile' key's value for the keys named as the parameters of permit(...)
So the way to fix is to write
#profile = Profile.new(profile_params)
instead of
#profile = Profile.new(params[profile_params])
With strong parameters you almost never interact with the params array directly from controller actions (such as create). The private strong parameter methods will handle that for you and by that, only safe, filtered data will be given to your controller actions.
Is it possible to use font awesome icons within a label when creating a form for example.
if my form looks like this
<%= f.label :email %>
<%= f.email_field :email, :autofocus => true %>
How would i add the i class to the label?
I have tried this
<%= f.label :email, :class => 'icon-user' %>
<%= f.email_field :email, :autofocus => true %>
but this doesn't work?
Try something like this (assuming email is a field of class User):
<%= f.label :email do %>
<i class="icon-user"></i>
<%= User.human_attribute_name :email %>
<%- end -%>
I have a model where I am storing stuff. When the value of a boolean attribute (action_type) is false, then PostgreSQL rolls back the INSERT query for some reason.
create_table :process_flows do |t|
t.integer :campaign_id
t.integer :position
t.string :description
t.string :typestr
t.float :action_number
t.boolean :action_type
t.string :action_on_donation
t.integer :created_by
t.integer :updated_by
t.timestamps
end
My View file looks like:
<%= form_for [#org, #campaign, #process_flow] do |f| %>
<%= render "shared/errors", :target => #process_flow %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :description %><br />
<%= f.text_field :description %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :typestr, 'Type of organization' %><br /><br />
<%= f.select :typestr, options_for_select([["Point of collection", "PC", :selected => true], ["Your Organization", "O"], ["Bank / Payment Gateway", "B"], ["Intermediary", "I"], ["Recipient Charity Project", "R"]]) %><br /><br />
</div>
<%= f.select :action_on_donation, options_for_select([["100% (Unchanged)", "U", :selected => true], ["Increase", "A"], ["Decrease", "S"]]) %>
the donation
by
<%= f.text_field :action_number, :style=>"width: 30px;", :value => '0' %>
<%= f.select :action_type, options_for_select([["Percent", '1', :selected => true], ["Flat Amount", '0']]) %>
<div>
<%= f.submit 'Add', :class=>'button' %>
</div>
<% end %>
This can happen on many platforms.
The most typical cause for this is a missing COMMIT. PostgreSQL will roll back open transactions when the connection is closed.
Another possibility is that you have a code branch which is not executing even though you expect it to be.
In these cases it is important to debug your code by walking through it (there is not enough code here to go on) and determine whether the insert is being sent at all and whether a commit is ever issued.