Unable to implement has_one relationship - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to create an account management system that allows an account to have one billing address. I want the account and address to have their own controller and model. An admin user would create a new account then be redirected to create a new billing address for this account. The first part works, I am able to create the account, but the second only saves the account_id attribute to the addresses table. Below is my code:
accounts_controller
class AccountsController < ApplicationController
def new
#account = Account.new
end
def create
#account = Account.new(params[:account])
#account.build_address
if #account.save
flash[:success] = "Customer Account has been successfully created!"
redirect_to '/newaddress'
else
render 'new'
end
end
end
addresses_controller
class AddressesController < ApplicationController
def new
#address = Address.new
end
def create
#account = Account.find(params[:account])
#address = #account.create_address(params[:address])
redirect_to root_path
end
end
account_model
class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :address
accepts_nested_attributes_for :address
attr_accessible :contactFirstName, :contactLastName, :contactEmail, :contactPhone, :business_name
end
address_model
class Address < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :city, :state, :street, :zipCode
belongs_to :account
end
I also added the following to my routes.rb file
resources :accounts do
resources :addresses
end
Last, below is the schema for the relavant tables
create_table "accounts", :force => true do |t|
t.string "contactEmail"
t.string "contactFirstName"
t.string "contactLastName"
t.string "contactPhone"
t.datetime "joinDate"
t.string "business_name"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
end
create_table "addresses", :force => true do |t|
t.string "city"
t.string "state"
t.string "street"
t.string "zipCode"
t.integer "account_id"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
end
(I am still new to programming and rails so I posted as much as I thought would be relevant.)
Added Log from when I open the new account page and then proceed to the new address page.
Started GET "/newaccount" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue Sep 20 17:21:56 -0500 2011
Processing by AccountsController#new as HTML
Rendered shared/_error_messages.html.erb (0.6ms)
Rendered accounts/_account_fields.html.erb (13.0ms)
Rendered layouts/_stylesheets.html.erb (1.2ms)
User Load (2.5ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IS NULL LIMIT 1
CACHE (0.0ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IS NULL LIMIT 1
Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (19.4ms)
Rendered layouts/_footer.html.erb (1.0ms)
Rendered accounts/new.html.erb within layouts/application (50.3ms)
Completed 200 OK in 168ms (Views: 64.6ms | ActiveRecord: 2.5ms)
Started POST "/accounts" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue Sep 20 17:22:11 -0500 2011
Processing by AccountsController#create as HTML
Parameters: {"commit"=>"Next", "account"=>{"business_name"=>"FooBar", "contactLastName"=>"Bar", "contactPhone"=>"1231231234", "contactEmail"=>"foo#bar.com", "contactFirstName"=>"Foo"}, "authenticity_token"=>"lJG89TIjcJighmFUWLg1uR9sJq0CHLvceeLH9QNocGY=", "utf8"=>"✓"}
SQL (0.1ms) BEGIN
SQL (0.3ms) SELECT 1 FROM `accounts` WHERE (LOWER(`accounts`.`contactEmail`) = LOWER('foo#bar.com')) LIMIT 1
SQL (1.2ms) describe `accounts`
AREL (0.4ms) INSERT INTO `accounts` (`created_at`, `contactFirstName`, `business_name`, `contactPhone`, `updated_at`, `contactEmail`, `contactLastName`, `joinDate`) VALUES ('2011-09-20 22:22:11', 'Foo', 'FooBar', '1231231234', '2011-09-20 22:22:11', 'foo#bar.com', 'Bar', NULL)
SQL (1.5ms) describe `addresses`
AREL (0.2ms) INSERT INTO `addresses` (`zipCode`, `state`, `city`, `updated_at`, `account_id`, `street`, `created_at`) VALUES (NULL, NULL, NULL, '2011-09-20 22:22:11', 31, NULL, '2011-09-20 22:22:11')
SQL (26.3ms) COMMIT
Redirected to http://localhost:3500/newaddress
Completed 302 Found in 85ms
Started GET "/newaddress" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue Sep 20 17:22:11 -0500 2011
Processing by AddressesController#new as HTML
Rendered addresses/_address_fields.html.erb (83.4ms)
Rendered layouts/_stylesheets.html.erb (1.4ms)
User Load (0.2ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IS NULL LIMIT 1
CACHE (0.0ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IS NULL LIMIT 1
Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (17.1ms)
Rendered layouts/_footer.html.erb (0.9ms)
Rendered addresses/new.html.erb within layouts/application (113.6ms)
Completed 200 OK in 126ms (Views: 119.6ms | ActiveRecord: 30.3ms)
Started POST "/newaddress" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue Sep 20 17:22:29 -0500 2011
Processing by AddressesController#new as HTML
Parameters: {"address"=>{"city"=>"Boston", "street"=>"123 Main St", "zipCode"=>"02222", "state"=>"MA"}, "commit"=>"Create", "authenticity_token"=>"lJG89TIjcJighmFUWLg1uR9sJq0CHLvceeLH9QNocGY=", "utf8"=>"✓"}
Rendered addresses/_address_fields.html.erb (10.3ms)
Rendered layouts/_stylesheets.html.erb (1.2ms)
User Load (0.2ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IS NULL LIMIT 1
CACHE (0.0ms) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` IS NULL LIMIT 1
Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (17.2ms)
Rendered layouts/_footer.html.erb (0.9ms)
Rendered addresses/new.html.erb within layouts/application (40.1ms)
Completed 200 OK in 54ms (Views: 47.3ms | ActiveRecord: 0.2ms)

Answer 1

The line in in the Address class looks wrong to me (take out the _attributes):
class Address < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :city, :state, :street, :zipCode
belongs_to :account
end

Answer 2

As quick look, you are passing only params[:account], tail log and see what you need
class AddressesController < ApplicationController
def new
#address = Address.new
end
def create
#account = Account.find(params[:account])
#address = #account.create_address(params[:address])
redirect_to root_path
end
end
Ass you added log, you can see now that when you post newaddress
Parameters: {"address"=>{"city"=>"Boston", "street"=>"123 Main St", "zipCode"=>"02222", "state"=>"MA"}, "commit"=>"Create", "authenticity_token"=>"lJG89TIjcJighmFUWLg1uR9sJq0CHLvceeLH9QNocGY=", "utf8"=>"✓"}
and your controller have
def create
#account = Account.find(params[:account])
#address = #account.create_address(params[:address])
redirect_to root_path
end
As you can see there are no #account = Account.find(params[:account])
So you account is null, you may add hidden field with account_id to form or catch other way depends of of your app.