Nested forms in rails - accessing attribute in has_many relation

Question

I have a user and a profile model. One user can have many profiles. I need to access only one information from the profiles section (viz the phone number) in my user model d

Answer 1

You could do something like the following:

<% form_for @user, :url => { :action => "update" } do |user_form| %>
  ...
  <% user_form.fields_for :profiles do |profiles_fields| %>
     Phone Number: <%= profiles_fields.text_field :profile_mobile_number %>
   <% end %>
<% end %>

But since you already have an association, then might as well use 'accepts_nested_attributes_for'