Rails 3 -- Build not saving to database (Railscast 196) - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I'm following along with railscast 196. I've got two levels of associations. App -> Form -> Question. This is the new action in the form controller.
def new
#app = App.find(params[:app_id])
#form = Form.new
3.times {#form.questions.build }
end
the view is displaying all 3 questions fine and I can submit the form... but nothing is inserted into the database for the questions. Here is my create action
def create
#app = App.find(params[:app_id])
#form = #app.forms.create(params[:form])
respond_to do |format|
if #form.save
format.html { redirect_to(:show => session[:current_app], :notice => 'Form was successfully created.') }
format.xml { render :xml => #form, :status => :created, :location => #form }
else
format.html { render :action => "new" }
format.xml { render :xml => #form.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
Here are the params that are sent to my create method:
{"commit"=>"Create Form",
"authenticity_token"=>"Zue27vqDL8KuNutzdEKfza3pBz6VyyKqvso19dgi3Iw=",
"utf8"=>"✓",
"app_id"=>"3",
"form"=>{"questions_attributes"=>{"0"=>{"content"=>"question 1 text"},
"1"=>{"content"=>"question 2 text"},
"2"=>{"content"=>"question 3 text"}},
"title"=>"title of form"}}`
This shows that the params are being sent correctly... I think. The question model just has a "content" text column.
Any help appreciated :)

Answer 1

Assuming:
You have your form set up properly,
Your server shows your data is being sent to the new action, and
Your model doesn't contain callbacks that are blocking the save,
try changing:
#form = #app.forms.create(params[:form])
to
#form = #app.forms.build(params[:form])

Answer 2

Ok figured it out. Turns out I should have been looking at my console a little more. The error it was hanging up on when trying to insert questions into the db was "Warning: can't mass assign protected attributes :questions_attributes". Adding this into the accessible attributes did the trick.
class Form < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :app
has_many :questions, :dependent => :destroy
accepts_nested_attributes_for :questions
attr_accessible :title, :questions_attributes
end