Rails 5 strong params with an Array within check boxes values

Question

Given these params:

"product"=><ActionController::Parameters {"id"=>"",
"category_ids"=><ActionController::Parameters {"2"=>"1", "3"=>"1", "4"=>"1"} ,
"name"=>"...", "description"=>"a good prod", "size"=>"2x3m", "price"=>"23$", "url_video"=>"http://...", "remarks"=>"bla"}

I want to catch category_ids params {"2"=>"1", "3"=>"1", "4"=>"1"} with the correct permit and require syntax:

when execute

params.require(:product).permit(:name, :size,..., category_ids: [] )

the result is

Unpermitted parameters: id, category_ids

I have tried params.require(:product).permit(:category_ids[:id,:val])... and other variants

what is the correct sintax?

PD: These params are the result of , for example:

<input type="checkbox" name="product[category_ids][2]" id="product_category_ids_2" value="1">
<input type="checkbox" name="product[category_ids][3]" id="product_category_ids_3" value="1">

for a has_and_belongs_to_many relation

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :images, dependent: :destroy
  has_and_belongs_to_many :categories, autosave: true

  attr_accessor :category_list

end

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :products

  before_destroy :check_products
end

Thanks a lot!

After more investigations, I found this article:

Has Many Through Checkboxes in Rails 3.x, 4.x and 5

Explains the good maners about this issue, and is for Rails 5, furthermore explains how attr_accessor is not necessary

could you post your product and category models?

oreoluwa
– oreoluwa

2016-07-18 17:47:38 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 17:47 — oreoluwa
– oreoluwa, Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 17:47
Sure! I edit the question

Albert Català
– Albert Català

2016-07-18 19:52:43 +00:00
Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 19:52 — Albert Català
– Albert Català, Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 19:52

oreoluwa · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-18 23:05:05Z

10

I'm not totally sure, but I think you should change your checkbox to look like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="product[category_ids][]" id="product_category_ids_2" value="2">
<input type="checkbox" name="product[category_ids][]" id="product_category_ids_3" value="3">

Then in your controller#product_params:

params.require(:product).permit(:id, category_ids: [])

answered Jul 18, 2016 at 23:05

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Albert Català Over a year ago

Yes! you can be sure now, that's the solution, Thanks

Konstantin Ilchenko · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-18 17:52:22Z

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Basically there is no syntax to permit hash. What I usually du is having such method ApplicationController

def nested_params_keys(key, nested_key)
  (params[key].try(:fetch, nested_key, {}) || {}).keys
end

And then in other controllers I have permitted params

params.require(:product).permit(
  :name,
  category_ids: nested_params_keys(:product, :category_ids)
)

answered Jul 18, 2016 at 17:52

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