Rendering a combo box in a partial - ruby-on-rails

In my project i have this combo box, and it works perfectly:
<%= collection_select #project, #project.clients.id, #project.clients, :id, :name %>
My simple and quick question is, how can i render this in a partial, I'm using this and it's not working...
<%= render :partial => "clients", :collection => #project.clients, :locals => {:project => #project }%>
and the partial code is:
<%= collection_select :project, clients.id, clients, clients.id, clients.name %

Try this within your partial:
<%= collection_selection project, project.clients.id, project.clients, :id, :name %>
(When you refer to template instance variables that are passed in to the partial as locals, use the non-symbol form of the variable name.)

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redirect from new action to create action with params

Im trying to design a shopping cart. i.e a customer shopping online adds a product to their trolley.
I want to go straight to create action from my new action without going to new.html.erb with pre-set values in my params
Here is what I have so far:
#trolley_id += 1
redirect_to :controller => 'trolleys', :action => 'create', :id => #trolley_id, :something => 'else', method: :post
This redirects me to my index action
To do this with javascript templates, it would look like this:
view
= form_form Trolley.new, remote: true do
-# form goes here
The remote true will submit it as javascript, which will try to render a javascript template.
Your create action can either render :create or let Rails render your template automatically. Since it came in as a javascript request, Rails will render the template with format js.
trolleys/create.js.erb
var html = "<%= j render 'trolley_row', trolley: #trolley %>
$('table.trolleys body').append(html);
I managed to resolve my problem. I created a form in my Product_controller#show that will go straight to my Trolley_controller#create and create an entry in my Trolleys table
<%= simple_form_for [#product, #trolley] do |f| %>
<%= f.input :quantity, collection: 1..12, prompt: "select quantity" %>
<%= f.input :product_id, :as => :hidden %>
<%= f.input :user_id, :as => :hidden %>
<%= f.button :submit, "Add to Basket" %>
<% end %>

link_to_function does not react to click in rails 3.1.0 & simple_form

Here is the code in rfqs/_form_new.html.erb to add a selection box for standard.
<%= simple_form_for #rfq do |f| %>
<div id="std">
<%= render :partial => 'standards/standards', :collection => #rfq.standards, :locals => { :f => f } %>
</div>
<%= link_to_function "Add Std", nil do |page| %>
page.insert_html :bottom, :std, :partial => 'standards/standards'
<% end %>
<% end %>
The html source code has # after href and cause no reaction for clicking the link.
Add Std
The _standards.html.erb partial looks like:
<%= f.association :standards, :collection => Standard.active_std.all(:order => 'name'), :label_method => :name, :value_method => :id %>
Any thoughts about missing link after href? Thanks.
I don't believe 3.1's link_to_function works the same way as older versions; I don't see anything in the source that utilizes a block.
This seems in keeping with using unobtrusive JavaScript. The Rails pulls related to accepting a block seem more related to link text rather than injecting JS.

Rails partial view set value of form field

Okay so I am quite new to Rails and am trying to do the following without success:
I have an Object (from my Active Record) containing a project, which contains n sub-projects, which contain n tasks. Now for each of these I want a partial view.
So I render from the project view the sub-project with the following code:
<%= render(:partial => 'subproject', :collection => #project.sub_projects) %>
Within my sub-project partial view called _subproject.rhtml (adding the code to a good ol Rails 1.2.3 project), so I can access the data like this:
<%= subproject.name %>
That will print out the name alright but when I try to generate a textfield this won't work:
<%= text_field 'subproject', 'name' %>
But this will:
<%= text_field 'subproject', 'name', :value => subproject.name %>
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: Changed title due to my problem is not passing the value but displaying it within a form field.
Edit2: As requested my controller code:
#project = Project.find(params[:id])
You can write this:
<%= render(:partial => 'subproject', :collection => #project.sub_projects) %>
as
<%= render :partial => #project.sub_projects %>
This will render every sub project with the sub_projects/_sub_project.html.erb partial. A little shortcut.
This:
<%= text_field 'subproject', 'name' %>
Says create a text_field called: subproject[name], but doesn't give it a value. You need to pass the value you want to set (the code that works).
The more idiomatic way of doing this now is with form_for:
<% form_for #subproject do |f| %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<% end %>
Or if you're using formtastic (https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic), which is fantastic, you'd write:
<% semantic_form_for #subproject do |f| %>
<%= f.input :name %>
<% end %>
I hope this helps!

How to produce several forms for a nested form?

Intro
I have an object #organization that has_many :quick_facts
Basically, I want to produce a _form for each :quick_fact but with one save button, that saves all of the quick_facts.
My two problems:
First Problem:
My quick_facts are not prepopulated with their information. They only appear as blank for each quick_fact I have.
Second Problem
A save button appears on every single form
My sad sad attempt :
- for quick_fact in #organization.quick_facts
- fields_for :quick_facts do |f|
= f.error_messages :header_message => FORM_ERROR_HEADER_MESSAGE, :message => FORM_ERROR_MESSAGE
= f.label :quick_fact, 'QuickFact'
%br/
= f.select :quick_fact, QUICK_FACTS, {}
%br/
= f.submit 'save', :class => 'button'
You really just want one form here, since you want to submit everything at once.
Here is what I would recommend:
Use a partial to render the label and the text option for the quick fact (if you want it to be text). You want this partial to be rendered once per quick fact, so use the :collection option on the render method to specify the collections of quick facts. Each partial will get its own local copy of whatever quickfact you are on, and a variable called quickfact_counter will also be created.
In addition, you will want to use the :locals option to pass the form to the partial as a local variable, so that you can do f.label, f.text_area
So, in conclusion, your new form will be something like this:
<% form_for #organization do |form| %>
<%= render :partial => "partial_name", :collection => #organization.quick_facts, :locals => {:form => form} %>
<%=form.submit 'save', :class => 'button'%>
<% end %>
Then your partial will just have
<%= form.label :quick_fact, 'QuickFact' %>
<%= form.text_field :quick_fact %>
If you wanted to get even fancier you could use a layout to render the form and have it defer to the partial, but this should be enough to get you started. Being able to pass a collection to a partial is one of my favorite Rails features.

Forms blank when rendering a partial when using a collection of objects. Help!

Alright, I know my title is a little obscure but it best describes the problem I am having.
Essentially, I have a list of users, and want to be able to edit their information in-line using AJAX.
Since the users are showing up in rows, I am using a partial to render the data and the forms (which will be hidden initially by the ajax), however, when the rows are rendered currently only the last item has it's form's fields populated.
I suspect this has something to do with the fact that all the form fields have the same id's and it is confusing the DOM. But I don't know how to make sure the id's are unique.
Here is a small example:
In my view:
<%= render :partial => 'shared/user', :collection => #users %>
My partial (broke down to just the form) note that I am using the local variable "user"
<% form_for user, :html => {:multipart => true} do |f| -%>
<%= f.label :name, "Name*" %>
<%= f.text_field :title, :class => "input" %>
<%= f.label :Address, "Address" %>
<%= f.text_field :address, :class => "input" %>
<%= f.label :description, "Description*" %>
<%= f.text_area :description, :class => "input" %>
<% end -%>
When the html is rendered each form has a unique id (for the id of the user) but the elements themselves all have the same id, and only the last user form is actually getting populated with values.
Does anyone have any ideas?? :)
Thanks in advance!
Alright, after having some lunch and regaining some brain cells, (and with a little help from Google) I figured this one out.
When passing a collection to a partial like this:
<%= render :partial => 'shared/user', :collection => #users %>
Rails creates a counter variable that you can use to define an index for the form in the form of "variable_counter":
<% form_for user, :index => user_counter, :html => {:multipart => true} do |f| -%>
This adds the index number to the form id as well as all the field id's and solved my little problem. :)
I hope this helps out someone else with this issue. :)

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