Ruby on Rails: Saving form check boxes to Boolean in Postgres - ruby-on-rails

Question

Rails noob here, how do I get a Rails form to save a boolean checkbox to postgres? I've tried dozens of things I've found online and none of it is working. No matter what I do, the entry in the Postgres DB is "Null". Here is my
Model(schema):
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171227200151) do
# These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
enable_extension "plpgsql"
create_table "notes", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "note_title"
t.string "note_text"
t.boolean "note_scratch", default: false, null: false
t.boolean "note_info"
t.boolean "note_reminder"
t.boolean "note_task"
t.string "note_tags"
t.date "note_remind_date"
t.time "note_remind_time"
t.integer "note_archived"
t.date "note_archived_date"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
end
end
view:
<%= form_with scope: :note, url: notes_path, local: true do |f| %>
<p>
<%= f.label :note_title %><br>
<%= f.text_field :note_title %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :note_text %><br>
<%= f.text_area :note_text %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :notes_scratch, "Scratch" %>
<%= f.check_box :notes_scratch %>
<%= f.label :notes_info, "Info" %>
<%= f.check_box :notes_info %>
<%= f.label :notes_reminder, "Reminder" %>
<%= f.check_box :notes_reminder %>
<%= f.label :notes_task, "Task" %>
<%= f.check_box :notes_task %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :note_tags %><br>
<%= f.text_field :note_tags %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :note_remind_date %><br>
<%= f.date_field :note_remind_date %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :note_remind_time %><br>
<%= f.time_field :note_remind_time %>
</p>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>
Controller:
class NotesController < ApplicationController
def new
end
def create
# for testing
# render plain: params[:note].inspect
#note = Note.new(note_params)
#note.save
redirect_to #note
end
private
def note_params
params.require(:note).permit(:note_title, :note_text, :note_scratch, :note_info, :note_reminder, :note_task, :note_tags, :note_remind_date, :note_remind_time, :note_archived, :note_archived_date)
end
end
If I just render the form results, it will show checked boxes as 1s, but it always comes up Null in the database, even if I set the datatype to Integer (hoping it would store the 1). All of the other fields record just fine. It's only the checkboxes that don't work.
I appreciate any assistance you can lend!
-Brick

Answer 1

Review your note_params (and schema.rb):
def note_params
params.require(:note).permit(:note_title, :note_text, :note_scratch, :note_info, :note_reminder, :note_task, :note_tags, :note_remind_date, :note_remind_time, :note_archived, :note_archived_date)
end
In your view: notes_* needs to be singular as your schema is note_*.