Nested form with radio buttons - ruby-on-rails

Nested form with radio buttons
Hi there,
I am a Rails newbie .
I've been trying to build a nested form with radio buttons.
Let me explain it.
The form for choosing a staff from a list using a radio button
Let's say
O John
O Jake
O Blake
O All
and then choosing another a radio button option for multiple amount choices such as
O 2$
O 4$
O 8$
O 10$
Then finally a submit button to post the values to the paymentgate Api.
For example, John, 8$
<% #staffs.each do |staff| %>
<tr>
<td><%= staff.first_name %></td>
<td><%= staff.last_name %></td>
<td><input id="favorite_color_maroon" name="favorite_color" type="radio" value="maroon" /></td>
<input type="radio" name="picker" value="whatever_who_cares"> Whatever, who cares? </form>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', staff %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_staff_path(staff) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', staff, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
<form action="/action_page.php">
<p>Please select your age:</p>
<input type="radio" id="age1" name="age" value="2">
<label for="staff_value">2</label><br>
<input type="radio" id="age2" name="age" value="4">
<label for="age2">4</label><br>
<input type="radio" id="age3" name="age" value="8">
<label for="age3">8</label><br><br>
<input type="radio" id="age4" name="age" value="10">
<label for="age4">10</label><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
so how can I associate those radio buttons along with submit button to the external api?

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def create
params[:student].each do |student_id, attendance_type|
attendance = Attendance.new
attendance.attendance_type = attendance_type.to_i
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<tbody>
<% #students.each do |student| %>
<form class="form-group" action="/events/<%= #event.id %>/attendances" method="post">
<tr>
<div class="checkbox">
<td style="white-space:normal;"><%= link_to student.name, student_path(student.id) %></td>
<% attendance = student.attendances.find_by_event_id(#event.id) %>
<% if attendance.blank? || attendance.attendance_type == 1 %>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" checked="checked" id="inlineRadio1" value="1"></label></td>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" id="inlineRadio2" value="2"></label></td>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" id="inlineRadio3" value="3"></label></td>
<% elsif attendance.attendance_type == 2 %>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" id="inlineRadio1" value="1"></label></td>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" checked="checked" id="inlineRadio2" value="2"></label></td>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" id="inlineRadio3" value="3"></label></td>
<% else attendance.attendance_type == 3 %>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" id="inlineRadio1" value="1"></label></td>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" id="inlineRadio2" value="2"></label></td>
<td style="white-space:normal;"><label class="radio-inline"><input type="radio" name="student[<%= student.id %>]" checked="checked" id="inlineRadio3" value="3"></label></td>
<% end %>
</div>
<% end %>
</tr>
<tr><%= button_to 'Submit', :class => 'btn btn-primary' %></tr>
</form>
</tbody>
Thank you in advance!
Hopefully this is your missing piece. I do not believe it will help with efficiency. I will explain after.
Using an attribute already existing for your model I would do the following to either find or create an attendance object for student with the id 10.
Attendance.where(:student_id => 10).first_or_create do |attendance|
attendance.event_id = 3 #arbitrary
attendance.attendance_type = 2 #arbitrary
end
OR
attendance = Attendance.where(:student_id => 10).first_or_initialize
# a bunch of ways to set attributes
# ... and then
attendance.save
Now, why this may be inefficient. If you are going through each student parameter and looping through some attribute you will incur multiple calls. For example, for 100 students you will end up doing 100 separate queries if you loop for a first_or_initialize on every student attribute set. What I suggest is mapping all of the parameters that you require together into one array, doing a where query and then looping through the array. Put them all into one create call as an array, and BAM you cut yourself some serious ActiveRecord overhead.
#Just giving some context to the student param keys
student_ids = params[:student].keys
#Query for all student ids
attendances = Attendance.where(student_id: student_ids)
#Get a list of ids by filtering out all of the existing ids
new_student_ids = student_ids - attendances.map{|a| a.student_id}
#Create an array to carry your hashes
attendances = Array.new
#Cycle through all of your non-created ids and build you create list
new_student_ids.each do |id|
attendances << {#assign all values as a hash by grabbing them from params[:student] using the iterating id}
end
#Create a bunch at once
Attendance.create attendances

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I'm having this issue where I want to display the correct answer in a check box in Rails, to no avail.
The structure is further complicated by the fact that my models are nested into one another so that Survey not only has_many, but also accepts_nested_attributes_for Questions and Questions has_many Choices similarly. The problem is that I'm simply not able to get the box checked for the correct answer.
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<thead>
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<li>Who is hungry?
<input name="correct_choice[content]" type="hidden" value="0" /><input type="checkbox" value="1" name="correct_choice[content]" id="correct_choice_content" />
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Normally, in order to get a date select in rails, I write this:
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<%= f.date_select(:dob) %>
<%= f.submit("HI") %>
<% end %>
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<!-- ETC -->
<select id="buddy_dob_2i" name="buddy[dob(2i)]">
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<!-- ETC -->
<select id="buddy_dob_3i" name="buddy[dob(3i)]">
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<!-- ETC -->
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<div class="form-group">
<label for="buddy_dob">Date of Birth</label>
<table class="table functional-table">
<tr>
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<div class="form-group">
<%= f.submit("HI") %>
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which produces this result:
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<div class="form-group">
<label for="buddy_dob">Date of Birth</label>
<table class="table functional-table">
<tr>
<td>
<select id="buddy_dob_1i" name="buddy[dob(1i)]" class="form-control">
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<!-- ETC -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table class="table functional-table">
<tr>
<td>
<select id="buddy_dob_2i" name="buddy[dob(2i)]" class="form-control">
<option value="1" selected="selected">January</option>
<!-- ETC -->
</td>
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</table>
<table class="table functional-table">
<tr>
<td>
<select id="buddy_dob_3i" name="buddy[dob(3i)]" class="form-control">
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<!-- ETC -->
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You have nested forms - this is illegal! Most of the browsers will simply ignore the inner form tag, so you'll end up with a DOM structure as presented. The outer form does not specify the action attribute, so browsers will append the current path as an action, in this case - /buddy/new. I'm a little bit surprised you're not getting routing error here - did you by any chance use match /buddy/new without specifying the verb?
Anyway - the solution is to get rid of surrounding form (the one with the role) and instead attach this role to your form_for call:
<%= form_for(:buddy, url: {action: :create}, html: {role: :form) do |f| %>
SOLVED! I just changed form_for to form_tag and it now works as expected. Thanks to BroiSatse for the information about ActionDispatch knowing how to convert the params; it encouraged me to look elsewhere for problems.
Your select names are not "standard". buddy[dob(3i)] is not a valid name.
When the query is sent to Rails, a first module changes all the received names into params. Here, it can't, and fail.
You should set somethink like this : buddy[dob_month].

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</tbody>
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Ah ha! The culprit is your button_to calls. Check out the documentation for button_to. As you will see, that helper wraps itself in a mini HTML form. In your case, its creating a form within a form, which is invalid.
You should be able to do the exact same action using link_to instead. So your button_to will end up looking like this:
<%= link_to 'Delete', post_path(post), :method => :delete, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :class => 'btn btn-mini btn-danger' %>
Try that and let me know if it makes a difference.
Your submit tag doesn't seem to be inside the form. That will make it not actually submit the form.
Edit: I think I might be wrong... but the dodgy indentation of your code makes it hard to tell. Can you clean up the indentation to make do/ends (and the code they contain) clearer and easy to see at a glance?

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