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Ruby

Posted by Panos Malliakoudis
Panos Malliakoudis
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Nested Forms with Devise/Simple_Form/Rails 4.0

Hello there, this is my first post on this forums. First of all here is what I use for my project.

Simple_Form: 3.0.0 Devise: 3.2.2 Rails: 4 Ruby: 2 Bootstrap: 3.0.3

I have a User model (from devise) and a part_order model (which has user_id as index), i set the user_id value in part_order create method like this '@part_order.user_id = current_user.id' not sure if its proper but it works fine.

Here is the problem:

The client wants an unregistered user to make a part order (create a part_order) and sign up (create a user)/ sign in (if he already an account) in the same page. I know that it has to do something with nested forms and attributes.

I am in early stage of the project so i didn't make any changes on the code (after the gems' installation).

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
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Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Panos Malliakoudis this is a bit of a challenge. Typically this is done by storing their part order in the session and then assigning it during the login process. If the user has never registered, you would keep it in the session and assign the part order after they complete the sign up process. You can then redirect them back to the order page once that's completed.