Rails has_many :through nested form

Question

I have just jumped into has_many :through association. I\'m trying to implement the ability to save data for all 3 tables (Physician, Patient

Answer 1

Ok, this little bugger of a question stumped me for a few hours, so I'm going to post my working solution on here in hopes it shaves some time for peeps. This is for Rails 4.0 and Ruby 2.0. This also overcame a "symbol to integer conversion" issue I had.

Models:

class Patient < ActiveRecord::Base 
  has_many :appointments
  has_many :physicians, :through: :appointments
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :appointments
end 

class Appointment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :physician 
  belongs_to :patient
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :physician
end

class Physicians < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :appointments
  has_many :patients, through: :appointments
end

Controller:

def new
  @patient= Patient.new 
  @appointments = @patient.appointments.build
  @physician = @appointments.build_physician 
end

def create
  Patient.new(patient_params)
end


def patient_params
   params.require(:patient).permit(:id, appointments_attributes: [:id, :appointment_time, physician_attributes: [:id ] )
end

View

<% form_for(@patient) do |patient_form| %>
  <%= patient_form.error_messages %>
  

    <%= patient_form.label :name, "Patient Name" %>
    <%= patient_form.text_field :name %>
  

  <% patient_form.fields_for :appointments do |appointment_form| %>
    

      <%= appointment_form.label :appointment_date, "Appointment Date" %>
      <%= appointment_form.date_field :appointment_date %>
    

    <% appointment_form.fields_for :physician do |physician_form| %>
      

        <%= physician_form.label :name, "Physician Name" %>
        <%= physician_form.text_field :name %>
      
    <% end %>
  <% end %>

  

    <%= patient_form.submit 'Create' %>
  
<% end %>

<%= link_to 'Back', patients_path %>