Kind of new to rails so help is greatly appreciated.
I'm working on a rails-based app, with a few associations. A user has a diary, and a diary has many workout contents and many nutritional contents. Workout content class has many exercises, and nutritional content class has many meals. When building instances of the associations in rails console, it works. So I know my schema and classes are good, it's just that the data does not persist when submitted through a form. The issue is, when I fill out the information for workout content and exercises, the data persists. Same as when I enter for nutritional content. But when I enter fields for the meals attributes, the data does not persist.
My models are built as so:
class DiaryEntry < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :user
has_many :workout_contents
has_many :nutritional_contents
has_many :exercises, through: :workout_contents
has_many :meals, through: :nutritional_contents
accepts_nested_attributes_for :exercises, reject_if: :all_blank, allow_destroy: true
accepts_nested_attributes_for :meals, reject_if: :all_blank, allow_destroy: true
accepts_nested_attributes_for :nutritional_contents, reject_if: :all_blank, allow_destroy: true
accepts_nested_attributes_for :workout_contents, reject_if: :all_blank, allow_destroy: true
end
class WorkoutContent < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :diary_entry
has_many :exercises
accepts_nested_attributes_for :exercises, reject_if: :all_blank, allow_destroy: true
end
class NutritionalContent < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :diary_entry
has_many :meals
accepts_nested_attributes_for :meals, reject_if: :all_blank,
allow_destroy: true end
class Meal < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :nutritional_content
validates :calories, :protein, :carbs, :fat, :numericality => { :only_integer => true }
end
class Exercise < ApplicationRecord
validates :name, :length => { :minimum => 2 }
belongs_to :workout_content
end
Below are my forms:
Main form for new entry:
<%= form_for @diary_entry, url: user_diary_entries_path(current_user) do |f| %>
<div id='contents'>
<%= f.fields_for :workout_contents, @diary_entry.workout_contents.build do |content| %>
<% end %>
</div>
<div class='links'>
<%= link_to_add_association 'Add Workout', f, :workout_contents, partial: 'workout_content_fields' %>
</div>
<h3>Add Nutrition Information to Diary</h3>
<div id='contents'>
<%= f.fields_for :workout_contents, @diary_entry.nutritional_contents.build do |content| %>
<% end %>
</div>
<div class='links'>
<%= link_to_add_association 'Add Meal', f, :nutritional_contents, partial: 'nutritional_content_fields' %>
</div>
<%= f.submit 'Save Diary Entry' %>
workout content fields partial:
<div class='nested-fields'>
<%= f.label :workout_name, value: "Workout Name"%>
<%= f.text_field :workout_name%>
<%= f.label :workout_type, value: "Workout Type"%>
<%= f.text_field :workout_type%>
<%= f.fields_for :exercises do |exercise| %>
<%= render 'exercise_fields', :f => exercise %>
<% end %>
<div class='links'>
<%= link_to_remove_association "remove workout", f %>
<%= link_to_add_association 'Add exercise to workout', f, :exercises %>
</div>
Exercise fields partial:
<div class='nested-fields'>
<%= f.label :name, value: "Exercise Name"%>
<%= f.text_field :name%>
<%= link_to_remove_association "remove exercise", f %>
</div>
nutritional content fields partial:
<div class='nested-fields'>
<%= f.label :meal_type, value: "Meal Type"%>
<%= f.select :meal_type, [ 'Breakfast','Lunch','Dinner', 'Snack' ], :prompt => 'Select One' %>
<%= f.fields_for :meals do |meal| %>
<%= render 'meal_fields', :f => meal %>
<% end %>
<div class='links'>
<%= link_to_add_association 'Add nutritional details', f, :meals %>
<%= link_to_remove_association "remove meal", f %>
</div>
Meals fields partial:
<div class='nested-fields'>
<%= f.label :calories, value: "Calories"%>
<%= f.text_field :calories%>
<%= f.label :protein, value: "Protein"%>
<%= f.text_field :protein%>
<%= f.label :carbs, value: "Carbs"%>
<%= f.text_field :carbs%>
<%= f.label :fat, value: "Fat"%>
<%= f.text_field :fat%>
<%= link_to_remove_association "remove nutrition content", f %>
And lastly, in my DiaryEntiresController I have:
def new
@diary_entry = DiaryEntry.new
end
def create
@diary_entry = DiaryEntry.new(diary_params)
@diary_entry.user_id = current_user.id
@diary_entry.save
redirect_to user_diary_entry_path(current_user, @diary_entry)
end
and:
def diary_params
params.require(:diary_entry).permit(:notes,
workout_contents_attributes: [:id, :workout_name, :workout_type, :_destroy, exercises_attributes: [:id, :name, :_destroy]],
nutritional_contents_attributes: [:id, :_destroy, :meal_type, meals_attributes: [:id, :protein, :carbs, :fat, :_destroy]])
end
Again, adding workout_contents_attributes, exercises_attributes, nutritional_contents_attributes all work. It is only meals_attributes that is giving me trouble.
Thanks in advance!!
