Rails Format Collection_Select Based on two relationships - ruby-on-rails

I'm trying to figure out how to construct a collection_select to include two relationships. Here are my models:
class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :companies, :dependent => :destroy
end
class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :country
has_many :departments, :dependent => :destroy
end
class Department < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :company
end
When I create a new company I use the following to show a select box based on the relationship.
<%= collection_select(:company, :country_id, Countries.all, :id, :name, :prompt => 'Please select country') %>
But for the departments I'd like to have a select which let's the user select it's company from a select which also includes the companies country, formatted in the following way:
Company 1 - Country 1
Company 2 - Country 1
If i use the following I will only get a list of all the companies which I'd like to be able to see from the list which country they are from.
<%= collection_select(:device, :cabinet_id, Cabinet.all, :id, :name, :prompt => 'Please select cabinet') %>
Is there a way for rails to pull the information for the country into a select and append the entry with it's parent country?
I hope I've worded this question correctly! Sorry if it isn't clear.

Even if #jvnil solution works, I think you should avoid putting this logic in your view.
Instead, you could create an instance method in your Company model and use it in your select.
In your model :
class Company< ActiveRecord::Base
def name_for_select
name + " - " + country.name
end
end
And in your view :
<%= collection_select(:department, :company_id, Company.all, :id, :name_for_select %>

Use
UPDATE: move logic code to model
# company.rb
def company_with_country
"#{name} - #{country.name}" # this is better than using `string + string` since it creates only 1 string
end
# view
collection_select :department, :company_id, Company.includes(:country).all, :id, :company_with_country
UPDATE: faster version because it only uses needed columns
# controller
#companies = Company.joins(:country)
.select('companies.id, companies.name, countries.name AS country_name')
.map { |c| ["#{c.name} - #{c.country_name}", c.id] }`
# view
select :department, :company_id, #companies

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Unpermitted parameter for join table via multiple select in Rails

I'm running into an error when nesting parameters in Rails 5: Unpermitted parameter: specialties
I have an Expertise model:
class Expertise < ApplicationRecord
has_many :buckets, through: :specialties
has_many :specialties
end
A Bucket model:
class Bucket < ApplicationRecord
has_many :expertises, through: :specialties
has_many :specialties
end
And a Specialty model:
class Specialty < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :expertise
belongs_to :bucket
end
I'm trying to allow the User to edit his or her Expertises and adjust the Specialties associated with them. The #buckets are passed in from the controller, and the form currently looks like this:
<%= form_for(expertise) do |f| %>
<%= f.fields_for :specialties do |s| %>
<%= s.collection_select :bucket_ids, #buckets, :id, :name, {}, { multiple: true, class: "input" } %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
I based the form on this answer.
Here's the relevant snippet from the ExpertisesController:
def expertise_params
params.require(:expertise).permit(:user_id, :name, :rating, :description, specialties_attributes: [:id, :expertise_id, :bucket_id, :_destroy, bucket_ids: []])
end
And here are the parameters that are being passed in:
Parameters: {"expertise"=>{"specialties"=>{"bucket_ids"=>["", "1"]}, "description"=>""}, "id"=>"97"}
Specialties should be an array, right? I'm not sure how to do that.
The aim is to easily enable the User to select from the available Buckets (#buckets) to toggle his or her Expertise Specialties on or off. So let's say there are 5 Buckets available, the User would only be able to toggle on/off 5 possible Specialties for that Expertise.
Unpermitted parameter: specialties
You didn't set up accept_nested_attributes_for which spits out with that error
class Expertise < ApplicationRecord
has_many :specialties
has_many :buckets, through: :specialties
accepts_nested_attributes_for :specialties
end
When I try that, the nested fields_for form doesn't return any
specialties and so the HTML element is empty. Then, when I try to use
#expertise.specialties.build, I get undefined method bucket_ids for
Specialty because bucket_ids isn't actually an attribute, but
bucket_id is. Worth keeping in mind that the User needs to be able to
toggle multiple Specialties, each of which is tied to a Bucket (via a
bucket_id), and from what I've ready I'm supposed to use bucket_ids
(the plural) there
You don't need to have plural form(_ids) just because to accept multiple values. Just keep bucket_id to accept multiple values. And don't forget to build the associated model in the controller
def new
#expertise = Expertise.new
#expertise.specialties.build
end
Change bucket_ids to bucket_id in the form
<%= s.collection_select :bucket_id, #buckets, :id, :name, {}, { multiple: true, class: "input" } %>
And finally, expertise_params should be
def expertise_params
params.require(:expertise).permit(:user_id, :name, :rating, :description, specialties_attributes: [:id, :expertise_id, :_destroy, bucket_id: []])
end
Update:
Ok after some research, it looks like it should be bucket_ids, but the bucket_ids should be allowed as attribute for expertise. Check this post and tweak your form and expertise_params accordingly. You won't be needing accept_nested_attributes_for too!
The situation: Expertise has_many Buckets through Specialties and you want to update some bucket status of a specific expertise. So you can do this:
class ExpertisesController < ApplicationController
def your_action
#expertise = Expertise.find params[:id]
bucket_ids = params[:expertise][:specialties][:bucket_ids]
#expertise.specialties.where(id: bucket_ids).update(status: :on)
end
end

How to display associated model's attribute in Active Admin index with belongs_to/has_many relationship (Rails 3.2/Active Admin)

I'm building a daily deal Rails app to learn RoR.
I am facing a problem for the past few hours : i can't get a model's attribute of an other associated model on active admin. Let me show you exactly the problem :
I have two models: Brand (i.e the brand of the deal) and Deal. A deal belongs to a Brand but a Brand can have many Deals.
models/deal.rb is like this:
class Deal < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :brand
and we have models/brand.rb:
class Brand < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :deals
attr_accessible :name
And i did the t.belongs_to in my migrations so this is ok.
In Active Admin's Deals' create form , i type, as admin, which brand the deal is associated with:
admin/game.rb
ActiveAdmin.register Deal do
# -- Form -----------------------------------------------------------
form do |f|
f.inputs "Brand (i.e. client)" do
f.input :brand_id, :label => "Select a brand:", :as => :select, :collection => Brand.all
end
it works great, and i can create Deals with a certain brand.
but I CAN'T manage to display the NAME of the Brand in my list of Deals:
ActiveAdmin.register Deal do
index do
selectable_column
# id_column
column :title
column :deal_amount
column :brand do |deal|
link_to deal.brand.name
end
...doesn't work.
How can I do that ?
I tried everything but i basically don't know how to fetch the name of a Brand given it matches the brand_id in the Deal's table.
Any help appreciated.
show do |f|
panel "Subject" do
attributes_table_for f, :name, :description, :is_visible
end
panel "Pages in List View" do
table_for(f.pages) do |page|
column :name
column :permalink
column :is_visible
end
end
panel "Pages in View " do
div_for(f.pages) do |page|
panel page.name do
attributes_table_for page, :name, :description, :is_visible
end
end
end
end
end
You can do nested relations in same style as parent model
A couple things seem missing:
class Deal < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :brands, foreign_key: :brand_id, class_name: 'Brand'
end
This is assuming that you mean partner to be a Brand and your schema uses brand_id for that relationship.
In your form, you can simply use:
form do |f|
f.inputs "Brand (i.e. client)" do
f.input :partner, label: 'Select a brand:'
end
end
Your link_to call won't actually link to a url the way you have it.
column :brand do |deal|
link_to deal.partner.name, admin_brand_path(deal.partner)
# or simpler
auto_link deal.partner
end
I would highly recommend trying to be consistent in your naming, as it will make things a lot less confusing and will require less code to make things work. i.e.
class Deal < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :brand
end
f.input :brand, label: 'Select a brand:'
auto_link deal.brand
And your DB column can still be named brand_id.

Problems Using collection_select to store value in the database

I have two models:
Project.rb
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :customer
end
and Customer.rb
class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :projects
end
Inside the _form.html.erb I have:
<p>
<label>Select Customer</label>
<%= f.collection_select :customer_id, Customer.all, :id, :name, :include_blank => true %>
</p>
Which should Collect the Customers from the Customer model and display all the customers, finally it should assign the value to the customer_id which is in projects table.
Rite now the everything is passing when i check the log. When I select the first customer with value=1, it passes customer_id = "1" in my log but it doesn't get stored in the table. It shows customer_id = nil in the projects table.
Can someone help. Thanks :)
Do check that you added customer_id in attr_accessible method like,
class Project
attr_accessible :your_other_attributes, :customer_id
end

rails - grouped_collection_select with 3 tables

The Rails docs example for grouped_collection_select is set up similar to what I need but I want to use 2 selects. The first one will list the continents. Then, based on the continent selection, I want to show a list of cities.
class Continent < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :countries
# attribs: id, name
end
class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :continent
# attribs: id, name, continent_id
end
class City < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :country
# attribs: id, name, country_id
end
I know the first select would be written as:
<%= f.collection_select :continent_id, Continent.order(:name), :id, :name %>
The second one is giving me problems:
<%= f.grouped_collection_select :city_id, Continent.order(:name), :countries, :name, :id, :name %>
The need for the country table is throwing me off. Any suggestions?

Join two tables and select record(table2) to form(table1) with drop-down-select

I would like to join two tables I have a table 'persons' and a table 'factories'.
My question is, how can I add a person and than choose (with a dropdown) the factory the person belongs to?
My persons model:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :factories
has_attached_file :cv
attr_accessible :cv, :email, :function, :mobile, :telephone
end
My factories model:
class Factory < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :persons
attr_accessible :last_name, :email, :telephone, :first_name, :website, :country
end
I want to do it for example:
| Add Person |
Function: (input field)
Telephone: (input field)
Mobile: (input field)
Email: (input field)
Factory (Drop-down) <= this is the actual field i would like to have and it is not placed in the persons table by default.
CV: (upload field)
Submit: (submit button)
I hope you understand what i would like to have and i hope someone could help.
**EDIT 1
I changed my plans. I would like to have a chosen factory.id in a column in the persons table.
I made a column in my Person table with the name factory.id now I would to to store the data from the other table in that column.
Is this possible?**
You can probably do this:
Controller:
#people=Person.new
#factories = Factory.all
View:
form_for #people do |a|
.
.
.
= a.select :factory, options_for_select(#factories.map{ |f| [f.name, f.id] })
You can't choose the factory with a dropdown because the Person has_many factories...
You could do it in the other direction, when you create a Factory you can select the Person it belongs_to with a dropdown.
If you want to do it like you said, you could have a dropdown with multi select enabled, and process that on the controller by hand, doing something like:
#person = Person.create(params[:person])
params[:factories].each do |f|
#person.factories << Factory.find(f)
end
In you view:
select_tag("factories", options_from_collection_for_select(Factory.all, "id", "name"), {:multiple => true})

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