creating recurring events with ice_cube gem - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to create recurring events using ice_cube and recurring_select gems.
Here is my _form.html.erb code:
<%= simple_form_for(#event) do |f| %>
<div class="form-inputs">
<%= f.select_recurring :day, [IceCube::Rule.daily] %>
<%= f.input :start_time %>
<%= f.input :end_time %>
</div>
<div class="form-actions">
<%= f.button :submit %>
</div>
<% end %>
In my controller I have (among other things):
def new
#event = Event.new
end
def create
#event = Event.new(event_params)
respond_to do |format|
if #event.save
format.html { redirect_to #event, notice: 'Event was successfully created.' }
format.json { render :show, status: :created, location: #event }
else
format.html { render :new }
format.json { render json: #event.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
def event_params
params.require(:event).permit(:day, :start_time, :end_time, :reserved)
end
As you can see I want to create the same event for each day in a week, but actually my :day column remains empty if I submit this form.
Can you give some feedback? I don't know what can be wrong

Answer 1

Your escape_params seems to be wrong, it should be event_params as you have used in the update action:
private
def event_params
params.require(:event).permit(:day, :start_time, :end_time, :reserved)
end
Update:
After looking into recurring_select gem, the data that it is sending to the server is something like this:
event[:day]: {"interval":1,"until":null,"count":null,"validations":null,"rule_type":"IceCube::DailyRule"}
So it is not a simple single value parameter that you can store in a single field.
You have two choices here, either serialize this value and store it in a single field or create separate fields for each parameter in the database.
And since your data in day field is a hash, permit function simply won't work on it. You can see more information on Rails issue tracker.