I'm working on a sort of web based game using rails. My goal is to set up a form that allows a user to create a fort on the user/show page via a user update form. I have been using nested attributes and associations to try to solve the problem but I keep running into an error.
I have set up associations in my models such as this:
class Fort < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :forts
accepts_nested_attributes_for :forts
... (omitted validations)
end
And I have set up my Users Controller with update and edit actions like this:
def edit
@user = User.find(params[:id])
end
def update
@user = User.find(params[:id])
@user.forts.build(params[:user][:forts])
if @user.update_attributes(user_params)
render @user
else
render 'users/show'
end
end
My Form in the users/show view looks like this:
<%= form_for @user do |f| %>
<%= f.fields_for :fort do |builder| %>
<%= builder.label :name, "Name" %>
<%= builder.text_field :name %>
<%= builder.label :ownership, "Ownership" %>
<%= builder.text_field :ownership %>
<% end %>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>
My Routes (I wouldn't think they are important here, but just in case),
BR::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users
resources :sessions, only: [:new, :create, :destroy]
resources :forts
resources :encampments
root 'home#home'
match '/signup', to: 'users#new', via: 'get'
match '/signin', to: 'sessions#new', via: 'get'
match '/signout', to: 'sessions#destroy', via: 'delete'
And finally my parameters are written as so:
def user_params
params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email, :username, :password, :password_confirmation, forts_attributes: [ :name, :xco, :yco, :territory, :ownership ])
end
I have teetered between the above
def user_params
params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email, :username, :password, :password_confirmation, forts_ids: [ :name, :xco, :yco, :territory, :ownership ])
end
and
def user_params
params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email, :username, :password, :password_confirmation, :forts => [ :name, :xco, :yco, :territory, :ownership ])
end
based on different protocols I have seen on other Stack Overflow threads. None of the permutations worked.
They all threw this error in the logs:
Unpermitted parameters: fort
The entire process looks like this:
Started PATCH "/users/1" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-09-04 20:35:02 -0400
Processing by UsersController#update as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"srybKv+WDZubO4ez+kiwfTYZvrP4tZYe9QoxQaMgmPk=", "user"=>{"fort"=>{"name"=>"test2", "ownership"=>"43"}}, "commit"=>"Update User", "id"=>"1"}
User Load (0.2ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = ? LIMIT 1 [["id", "1"]]
Unpermitted parameters: fort
(0.1ms) begin transaction
User Exists (0.3ms) SELECT 1 AS one FROM "users" WHERE (LOWER("users"."email") = LOWER('ascottpedersen@gmail.com') AND "users"."id" != 1) LIMIT 1
(0.1ms) rollback transaction
Rendered users/show.html.erb within layouts/application (49.2ms)
User Load (0.4ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."remember_token" = '0705e5d60cc1be62fa51d8e407683e79f730a3b2' LIMIT 1
Completed 200 OK in 173ms (Views: 66.1ms | ActiveRecord: 5.1ms)
I'm pretty sure I dotted my I's and crossed my T's but now I'm pulling my hair out trying to find my error. Any help you guys can give, would be reciprocated with my thanks forever. The only problem I can still imagine is that I am putting an update form in my users/show view, but I am almost sure that is a fine thing to do.
Thanks again,
Alex P
