Form that submits multiple fields with same attribute

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I have a pretty typical controller with a new action. It looks like this:

  def new
    @child = Child.new
  end

The form fields in my view is also fairly simple. They looks like:

<%= form.text_field :name, placeholder: "John" %>
<%= form.text_field :birthday, placeholder: "MM/DD/YYYY" %>

I'd like my view to submit multiple children in this form. I'll have javascript create them dynamically.

How do I deal with this in the new and action in my controller? And how do I deal with this in my view?

It seems like must be a way to submit an array of children. I feel confident that I can deal with the array in a create controller action, but I'm not sure where to start here.

Marcelo Barreto · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-11 04:42:25Z

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You need to use nested_attributes.

Look if this could help.

Cocoon

answered Mar 11, 2016 at 4:42

Marcelo Barreto

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