Rails 3 create default nested objects

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I have a form where the user signs up and creates an Account, an User and a Website.

def new
  @account = Account.new
  @account.users.build
  @account.websites.build
  ...
end

def create
  @account = Account.new(params[:account])
  ...

Everything works fine. Now, I want to create a default Page with Page.title = "homepage" and Page.body = "".

How can I do that? I tried different options and it doesn't work. For example, I do this @account.websites.pages.build and I get this undefined method pages for []:ActiveRecord::Relation.

Tried but I get undefined method title for nil class @account.websites[0].pages[0].title = "homepage" — leonel
– leonel, Commented Sep 27, 2011 at 20:13

Philip C · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-07 17:42:35Z

1

The collection returned by @account.websites is an array, rails can't intuit which member of the collection you're trying to create an associated object on... You need to specify which website you want to build a page for, ie

@account.websites.first.pages.build

answered Oct 7, 2011 at 17:42

Philip C

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