If you saw the railscasts on nested forms this is the helper method to create links dynamically. However, after I upgraded to ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3 this doesn't work and I have now idea why.
def link_to_add_fields(name, f, association)
new_object = f.object.class.reflect_on_association(association).klass.new
fields = f.fields_for(association, new_object, :child_index => "new_#{association}") do |builder|
render(association.to_s.singularize + "_fields", :f => builder)
end
link_to_function(name, h("add_fields(this, \"#{association}\", \"#{escape_javascript(fields)}\")"))
end
here is the javascript
function add_fields(link, association, content) {
var new_id = new Date().getTime();
var regexp = new RegExp("new_" + association, "g")
$(link).up().insert({
before:
content.replace(regexp, new_id)
});
}
When I view source this is how the link is getting rendered:
<p><a href="#" onclick="add_fields(this, "dimensions", ""); return false;">Add Dimension</a></p>
so "" is not the correct information to build a new template and something is going on with how the string for fields is getting set. such as fields= f.fields_for
