Create and edit multiple records of the same model - ruby-on-rails-3

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I'm quite new to Rails and to this Q&A website! So hello everyone, I'm a French Rails tester. I have cross posted this question to Railsforum too, to have a better chance on getting an answer :) (http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=44238)
I need help on something. It seems simple, but in my opinion, not well documented (I browsed the web for 3 days without finding a clean answer. Some partial solutions here, but not a complete and clean one for a newbie!)
I want to add some actions to a default scaffolded controller to handle creation and modification of multiple records in the same form.
rails generate scaffold Item title:string
This is the sample scaffolded code:
app/controllers/items_controller.rb
class ItemsController < ApplicationController
# GET /items
# GET /items.xml
def index
#items = Item.all
respond_to do |format|
format.html # index.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => #items }
end
end
# GET /items/1
# GET /items/1.xml
def show
#item = Item.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.html # show.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => #item }
end
end
# GET /items/new
# GET /items/new.xml
def new
#item = Item.new
respond_to do |format|
format.html # new.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => #item }
end
end
# GET /items/1/edit
def edit
#item = Item.find(params[:id])
end
# POST /items
# POST /items.xml
def create
#item = Item.new(params[:item])
respond_to do |format|
if #item.save
format.html { redirect_to(#item, :notice => 'Item was successfully created.') }
format.xml { render :xml => #item, :status => :created, :location => #item }
else
format.html { render :action => "new" }
format.xml { render :xml => #item.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
# PUT /items/1
# PUT /items/1.xml
def update
#item = Item.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
if #item.update_attributes(params[:item])
format.html { redirect_to(#item, :notice => 'Item was successfully updated.') }
format.xml { head :ok }
else
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
format.xml { render :xml => #item.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
# DELETE /items/1
# DELETE /items/1.xml
def destroy
#item = Item.find(params[:id])
#item.destroy
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to(items_url) }
format.xml { head :ok }
end
end
end
app/views/items/new.html.erb
<h1>New item</h1>
<%= render 'form' %>
<%= link_to 'Back', items_path %>
app/views/items/edit.html.erb
<h1>Editing item</h1>
<%= render 'form' %>
<%= link_to 'Show', #item %> |
<%= link_to 'Back', items_path %>
app/views/items/_form.html.erb
<%= form_for(#item) do |f| %>
<% if #item.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<h2><%= pluralize(#item.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this item from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
<% #item.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li><%= msg %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :title %><br />
<%= f.text_field :title %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit %>
</div>
<% end %>
In my opinion, I need to add 4 methods to my Item controller:
new_multiple : to initialize the new
multiple form view
create_multiple :
to handle results from the new
multiple form view
edit_mulitple : to
initialize the edit multiple form
view
update_mulitple : to handle
results from the edit multiple form
view
Then, I need to create 2 new views:
new_multiple.html.erb with code for a multiple record (5 in the same time) creation form
edit_mulitple.html.erb with code for a multiple record (5 in the same time) edition form
and maybe _partials to avoid DRY stuff...
Anyone want to help me write these 4 actions and 2 views? I would really appreciate that.
Thanks! :)
Note : In my application items are children of parentItems but I DON'T WANT to use nested_form to create items in parentItems forms like in railscast 196 and 197.