Associations with more than one add-link (initialization model)

[carlosgarciaq]

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Hey, thank you very much for developing this wonderful gem! It's done my life easier. I'm using it in my project for 2 of my forms and in one I'm finding that having two types of add-links (with different model_object) could be useful. It's a situation similar to this:

<%= nested_form_for @receipt do |f| %>
  ...
  <%= f.link_to_add "Add a good", :products, :model_object => Product.new(:kind => 'good') %>
  <%= f.link_to_add "Add a service", :products, :model_object => Product.new(:kind => 'service') %>
<% end %>

I think right now this is not supported, only one blueprint is created and both links would insert a product of type 'good'.

Do you think it could be modified easily to do it? Do you see any drawbacks? Manipulating the code in your Railscasts nr. 197 (nested model form pt. 2) this is pretty easy but there are no blueprints there.

This could also help to work with polymorphic associations. Would the gem work with polymorphic associations, btw?

[codegourmet]

This is probably a duplicate of [edit: rather "related to" than duplicate] Issue #237.

I have the same issue, in my case it's with a polymorphic model:

<%= f.link_to_add "Add a Text Component", :components, :model_object => TextComponent.new) %>
<%= f.link_to_add "Add an Image Component", :components, :model_object => ImageComponent.new) %>
...

[abacha]

+1

[panupan]

+1

Looks like blueprint_id generation might need to be updated to support this: https://github.com/ryanb/nested_form/blob/master/lib/nested_form/builder_mixin.rb#L106

[singpolyma]

This would require another param that would be the name of this "type" of blueprint.