How do I specify the Controller and Action in a form submission? I am trying to use a 'Clients' Controller to create an Account and an associated Person ('Client').
Here are the pertinent models. A Person belongs either to an Account directly (which I am calling a 'Client') or to a Location and Organization within an Account.
class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :organizations
has_many :persons, :as => :linkable
accepts_nested_attributes_for :organizations
end
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :linkable, :polymorphic => true
end
And here is the form to create a 'Client' I am trying to make along with the rest of the code:
<%= form_for @account, :url => { :controller => "clients_controller",
:action => "create" } do |f| %>
<%= f.fields_for :persons do |builder| %>
<%= builder.label :first_name %><br />
<%= builder.text_field :first_name %><br />
<%= builder.label :last_name %><br />
<%= builder.text_field :last_name %><br />
<%= builder.label :email1 %><br />
<%= builder.text_field :email1 %><br />
<%= builder.label :home_phone %><br />
<%= builder.text_field :home_phone %><br />
<% end %>
<%= f.submit "Add client" %>
<% end %>
class ClientsController < ApplicationController
def new
@account = Account.new
@person = @account.persons.build
end
def create
@account = Account.new(params[:account])
if @account.save
flash[:success] = "Client added successfully"
render 'new'
else
render 'new'
end
end
end
And here are my routes:
ShopManager::Application.routes.draw do
resources :accounts
resources :organizations
resources :locations
resources :people
resources :addresses
get 'clients/new'
post 'clients'
end
When trying to render the form, I get the following error:
ActionController::RoutingError in Clients#new
Showing C:/Documents and Settings/Corey Quillen/My
Documents/rails_projects/shop_manager/app/views/clients/new.html.erb where line #1
raised:
No route matches {:controller=>"clients_controller", :action=>"create"}
Extracted source (around line #1):
1: <%= form_for @account, :url => { :controller => "clients_controller", :action =>
"create" } do |f| %>
2:
3: <%= f.fields_for :persons do |builder| %>
4: <%= builder.label :first_name %><br />
You have to say this in routes.rb
resources :clients
In the form, specify the url as clients_path with method as post:
<%= form_for @account, :url => clients_path, :html => {:method => :post} do |f| %>
---
<% end
For more information how rails handles REST urls: http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/urls
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