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```erb
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<form action="/people" class="new_person" id="new_person" method="post">
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```erb
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This generates:
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```html
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<form action="/people" class="new_person" id="new_person" method="post">
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<input id="person_name" name="person[name]" type="text" />
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<input id="person_address_attributes_street" name="person[address_attributes][street]" type="text" />
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</form>
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```
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Notice that `fields_for` recognized the `address` as an association for which a nested model form should be built by the way it has namespaced the `name` attribute.
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When this form is posted the Rails parameter parser will construct a hash like the following:
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```ruby
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{
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"person" => {
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"name" => "Eloy Duran",
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"address_attributes" => {
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"street" => "Nieuwe Prinsengracht"
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}
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}
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}
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```
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That's it. The controller will simply pass this hash on to the model from the `create` action. The model will then handle building the `address` association for you and automatically save it when the parent (`person`) is saved.
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#### Nested form for a collection of associated objects
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The form code for an association collection is pretty similar to that of a single associated object:
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```erb
|
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<%= form_for @person do |f| %>
|
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+
<%= f.text_field :name %>
|
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+
|
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+
<%= f.fields_for :projects do |pf| %>
|
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<%= pf.text_field :name %>
|
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+
<% end %>
|
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|
+
<% end %>
|
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+
```
|
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+
|
199
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+
Which generates:
|
200
|
+
|
201
|
+
```html
|
202
|
+
<form action="/people" class="new_person" id="new_person" method="post">
|
203
|
+
<input id="person_name" name="person[name]" type="text" />
|
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|
+
|
205
|
+
<input id="person_projects_attributes_0_name" name="person[projects_attributes][0][name]" type="text" />
|
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|
+
<input id="person_projects_attributes_1_name" name="person[projects_attributes][1][name]" type="text" />
|
207
|
+
</form>
|
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|
+
```
|
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|
+
|
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|
+
As you can see it has generated 2 `project name` inputs, one for each new `project` that was built in the controller's `new` action. Only this time the `name` attribute of the input contains a digit as an extra namespace. This will be parsed by the Rails parameter parser as:
|
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|
+
|
212
|
+
```ruby
|
213
|
+
{
|
214
|
+
"person" => {
|
215
|
+
"name" => "Eloy Duran",
|
216
|
+
"projects_attributes" => {
|
217
|
+
"0" => { "name" => "Project 1" },
|
218
|
+
"1" => { "name" => "Project 2" }
|
219
|
+
}
|
220
|
+
}
|
221
|
+
}
|
222
|
+
```
|
223
|
+
|
224
|
+
You can basically see the `projects_attributes` hash as an array of attribute hashes, one for each model instance.
|
225
|
+
|
226
|
+
NOTE: The reason that `fields_for` constructed a hash instead of an array is that it won't work for any form nested deeper than one level deep.
|
227
|
+
|
228
|
+
TIP: You _can_ however pass an array to the writer method generated by `accepts_nested_attributes_for` if you're using plain Ruby or some other API access. See (TODO) for more info and example.
|