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Monday, March 09 2009
2172 Nested model forms error on loading data from belongs_to associations that ev... was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • David Yip
    David Yip commented at 4:02 PM

    I think exceptions would be fine; I personally haven't had a need for using forms on schemas that don't match what is expected by the form.

    However, form_for do...
  • David Yip
    David Yip commented at 4:10 AM

    Yeah, there's definitely times where the model is a more appropriate location for this sort of initialization code.

    Here's another patch that implements the "do...
Sunday, March 08 2009
2172 Nested model forms error on loading data from belongs_to associations that ev... was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • David Yip
    David Yip commented at 8:06 PM

    Hmm, let me make sure I understand the proposal.

    In this case, if post.author is nil, then the render result for

    
<% form_for @post do |f| %>
  <% f.fields_f...
  • David Yip
    • Title changed from Nested model forms error on loading data from one-to-one associations that evaluate to nil to Nested model forms error on loading data from belongs_to associations that evaluate to nil
    by David Yip at 11:05 AM
  • David Yip
    David Yip commented at 11:02 AM

    Here's a manual test in the form of a small Rails application that exercises the full stack in a scenario similar to the one in the problem description. To exer...
  • David Yip
    David Yip created the ticket at 10:56 AM

    When a belongs_to association called in a nested model form construction context evaluates to nil, new_record? is invoked on nil, which causes an error to be ra...