Rails populate edit form for non-column attributes
- by Rabbott
I have the following form:
<% form_for(@account, :url => admin_accounts_path) do |f| %>
<%= f.error_messages %>
<%= render :partial => 'form', :locals => {:f => f} %>
<h2>Account Details</h2>
<% f.fields_for :customer do |customer_fields| %>
<p>
<%= customer_fields.label :company %><br />
<%= customer_fields.text_field :company %>
</p>
<p>
<%= customer_fields.label :first_name %><br />
<%= customer_fields.text_field :first_name %>
</p>
<p>
<%= customer_fields.label :last_name %><br />
<%= customer_fields.text_field :last_name %>
</p>
<p>
<%= customer_fields.label :phone %><br />
<%= customer_fields.text_field :phone %>
</p>
<% end %>
<p>
<%= f.submit 'Create' %>
</p>
<% end %>
As well as
attr_accessor :customer
And I have a before_create method for the account model which does not store the customer_fields, but instead uses them to submit data to an API.. The only thing I store are in the form partial..
The problem I'm running into is that when a validation error gets thrown, the page renders the new action (expected) but none of the non-column attributes within the Account Detail form will show?
Any ideas as to how I can change this code around a bit to make this work me??
This same solution may be the help I need for the edit form, I have a getter for the data which it asks the API for, but without place a :value = "asdf" within each text box, it doesn't populate the fields either..
