Cocoon add association, how to limit number of associations

Question

I am creating a system that stores cards using Ruby/Rails/HAML - In this case there is a Card class that has many Colours (this is also a class). When creating and editing a

Answer 1

I would use javascript for this. You can bind to an event that is triggered upon insert of a new item: on this event count how many items there are, and hide the link if needed.

Likewise, when loading the page do the same.

So in code that would look like:

 $(function() {
   function check_to_hide_or_show_add_link() {
     if ($('#colours .nested-fields:visible').length == 5) {
       $('#colours .links a').hide();
     } else {
       $('#colours .links a').show();
     }
   }

   $('#colours').on('cocoon:after-insert', function() {
     check_to_hide_or_show_add_link();
   });

   $('#colours').on('cocoon:after-remove', function() {
     check_to_hide_or_show_add_link();
   });

   check_to_hide_or_show_add_link();     
 });

Something like this should work. Note this code is not tested :)

Hope this helps.