From: travis laduke <wrong@...>
Date: 2006-02-28T15:44:09+09:00
Subject: this feels ugly

i better explain a little to get started.
in my form for creating a Person, there's a Company field. People  
belong to companies and companies have many people.

in my person form i have:
<%= text_field 'person', 'Company'  %>

in my controller i have
def create
	params['person']['Company'] = Company.find_by_name(params['person'] 
['Company'])
	@person = Person.new(params[:person])
	...
end

this seems ugly to me and makes me feel like this is not the best way.
I'm doing this because Person.new expects Company to be a Company  
object not a string. params['person']['Company'] comes in from the  
form as "cutco" or "edgeslice" or whatever.

Anyway, i'm using a text field instead of a select box, because  
select boxes with more that like 3 items are annoying to use. I'm  
going to autocomplete the company text field.

how do people usually create new objects (and specify who they  
belong_to) from the child's (in this case Person) view/controller?


travis