I'm trying to have a list to checkboxes with multiple selection. I have this array in the model.
QOL = ["your health",
"your stress levels",
"how safe you feel",
"your education",
"your home"
]
I'm trying to do somthing like this in my simple_form form.
<%= f.input :qolselections, as: :check_boxes, :collection => Goal::QOL %>
How can I save the selections to the database and be able to retrieve them as the selected string values?
Instead of a Constant, you should consider an enum:
class YourModel < ActiveRecord::Base
enum qol_selection: ["your health", "your stress levels", "how safe you feel", "your education", "your home"]
end
Then, your solution becomes similart to the one described in the following question Saving enum from select in Rails 4.1 (https://stackoverflow.com/a/23686698/637094):
f.input :qol_selection, :as => :select, :collection => YourModel.qol_selections.keys.to_a
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I am trying to implement HABTM model with two of my database tables. Two tables are Users and Ratings. According to general structure I should have following things
Users Model/Table
Ratings Model/Table
User_ratings Table
But User_ratings will have an extra column other than two ids and that will be a pre-defined string named stage. Stage will have pre-defined values such as appointment, completion e.t.c.
My first question is does this change the role of my middle table (through table) or will we still create just a migration for middle table.
Secondly, I am trying to implement a simple form to assign different users different ratings and my code looks like.
= simple_form_for #appointment, :html => {:class => 'form-horizontal'} do |f|
= f.input :start_datetime, as: :datetime_picker, input_html: {class: "datetime form-control"}
= f.input :end_datetime, as: :datetime_picker, input_html: {class:"datetime form-control"}
/ Now here I want three fields belonging to my middle table. Something like
= r.input :contact_id, :collection => Contact.all, :label_method => :get_contacts
= r.inout :rating_id, :collection => Rating.all, :label_method => :get_ratings
= r.hidden_field :stage, value: 'Appointment'
The problem here is that I don't have a model for middle table and hence I am stuck with how to do it with simple_form
Any kind of help will be highly appreciated. Thanks
I'm trying to manually tell formtastic to check a few checkboxes. #some_array currently has an element called checked which exists for each member.
= f.input :cboxes, label: "CBoxes", as: :check_boxes,
collection: #some_array.map { |a| [a[:name], a[:id]] }
I've tried to set the input_html to { checked: 'checked' } (How to pre-check checkboxes in formtastic) but this checks all checkboxes, not just the select few that I want.
The contents of #some_array are coming via an API, and I can't change the database structure (Ruby on Rails + Formtastic: Not checking checkboxes for multiple checked answers)
Suggestions?
If you are editing an ActiveModel, you don't need to "manually select checkboxes".
Let's consider a simple example with a single User model which has fields username and roles. Roles field is a string column, which Rails serializes as an Array. It might also be has_many relation to other ActiveModel, but we assume it's an Array for simplicity.
User is defined in user.rb:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
serialize :roles, Array
end
Now you can "assign manually" desired roles to User in your controller:
#user = User.new(username: 'dimakura', roles: ['admin', 'editor'])
and define form in your view:
<%= semantic_form_for #user do |f| %>
<%= f.input :username %>
<%= f.input :roles, as: :check_boxes, collection: ['owner', 'admin', 'editor', 'viewer'] %>
<% end %>
In given example only "admin" and "editor" roles will be pre-selected in form. The "owner" and "viewer" role won't be selected.
Update Official documentation states:
Formtastic, much like Rails, is very ActiveRecord-centric.
But actually it's not a big challenge to create ActiveRecord-compatible model yourself. An example of doing this can be found in this blog post.
I have a select box on my form which retreives an object with the following attributes:
:id, :v2_read_code, :v2_term
The select code is:
f.inputs "Tests" do
f.has_many :eqa_material_tests, :allow_destroy => true, :heading => 'Tests In EQA Material' do |cf|
cf.input :test_id, :as => :select, :collection => Hash[Test.all.order(default: :asc).map{|b| [b.v2_term,b.id]}]
end
end
Where I am storing the test id in a model/table with the following structure:
eqa_material_tests
id, test_id, eqa_material_id
In addition to storing the test_id, I'd also like to store the v2_read_code and v2_term as I'd like to keep a copy of these items if possible.
Is this possible?
After a nights sleep I've realised I'm approaching this wrong. I can do this using an active record callback like after_create
I'm 90% sure I'm doing something obviously wrong here, but when I'm using a select with a collection:
<%= f.input :description,
:label => "Which best describes who you are?",
:prompt => "Select an option...",
:collection => [[ "I am working for a company", "working"],["I am a freelancer", "freelancer"],["I am studying", "studying"],["I have recently graduated", "graduated"],["I teach", "teach"],["None of these things","none"]]
%>
and the form fails validation, the previously selected value is not selected, even though it is saved and is being passed to the params[:user][:description] as expected. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
It's described there https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic/wiki/Deprecation-of-%3Aselected-option#what-to-do-instead, so following should work
f.select :description,
options_for_select([[ "I am working for a company", "working"],["I am a freelancer", "freelancer"],["I am studying", "studying"],["I have recently graduated", "graduated"],["I teach", "teach"],["None of these things","none"]], f.object.description)
:label => "Which best describes who you are?",
:prompt => "Select an option...",
Also I would suggest moving collection to a separate helper method
I am still struggling both writing the controller and the actual form to be able to nest one form in another with an optional model?
I have Message which has many contacts
When submitting a message, I want to add a contact optionally.
I have this as an example:
= simple_form_for Message.new, :remote => true do |f|
#message_form
= f.error_messages
%p
= f.input :account_name, :url => autocomplete_account_name_messages_path, :size => 40, :as => :autocomplete
%p
= f.input :topic, :required => true,
:input_html => {:size => 30}
#add_contact_btn
= link_to "Add Contact"
#contact_form
= f.simple_fields_for :contactd do |fc|
= fc.input :email
= fc.input :first_name
= fc.input :last_name
= f.submit 'Give'
= f.submit 'Request'
For Message.rb model, I have the following:
has_many :contacts
accepts_nested_attributes_for :contacts, :reject_if =>:all_blank
Note: When I used :contacts in the simple_fields_for it didn't work, so it is singular. But the reverse for accepts_nested_attributess_for.
In my create controller for message, I included message.contacts.build
But right now I am still generating nil contacts.
Here is what I see passed as form data from google chrome:
message%5Baccount_name%5D:McKesson
message%5Btopic%5D:testing a contact
message%5Bbody%5D:testing this
sender_id:
receiver_id:23
message%5Bcontacts%5D%5Bemail%5D:888#gmail.com
message%5Bcontacts%5D%5Bfirst_name%5D:Ang
message%5Bcontacts%5D%5Blast_name%5D:Name
The correct method name is simple_fields_for (notice the plural)
Also, you need to keep the f. to call it on the simple_form object
I have a small project where I demonstrate how to use nested forms in simple-form, combined with cocoon (a gem I created to add/remove nested elements dynamically).
The project is on github.
Hope this helps.
In my create controller for message, I included message.contacts.build
But right now I am still generating nil contacts.
Make sure you put in your Message.rb model the ability for it to accept the attributes too.
class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :contacts_attributes
has_many :contacts
accepts_nested_attributes_for :contacts
I know it doesn't answer your question fully but it may have just been this. When it comes to my project, it would return nil if i didn't include the :contacts_attributes, in my case it deals with products. Hope this helps even if I'm not using simple form as of now!
I faced similar issues working with nested forms. As suggested by JustinRoR you need to define
attr_accessible: contacts_attributes.
You should be able to test the hash in the ruby console ( I am not sure if you have tried this). I suggest you to print the params[:message] and use this to create message from console like Message.new(params[:message]). (Note params[:message] is what you get by printing the params[:message] hash).
Once it works in console it should work like charm