You don't need a heavy rails admin framework to get one-to-many relationships working.
You can use scaffolding to get most of the way there.
A little more work in the controller and _form view will get you the rest of the way there.
Here's how...
Story: Select a beer for a developer
In order to select a beer for a developer
As an admin
I want a mainly scaffolded interface to select that beer
Scenario 1: Select beer for new developer
Given I have clicked the <new> button and entered the developer's name
When I click the beer dropdown
Then I should be presented with a list of beers to choose from
And that beer will be saved when I click <ok>
Scenario 2: Select a different beer for existing developer
Given I have clicked the <edit> button on the index page for a particular developer
When I click the beer dropdown
Then I should be presented with a list of beers to choose from
And that beer will be saved when I click <ok>
Assuming we have a beers table:
create_table "beers", force: true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
end
And a developers table that has a foreign key (beer_id) referencing the beers table:
create_table "developers", force: true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.integer "beer_id"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
end
We can use scaffolding to create both tables:
$ rails g scaffold beer name
$ rails g scaffold developer name beer_id:integer
The scaffold command creates the controllers and views for each model.
We will need to modify our controllers and views a little bit to get the dropdown menu to select a beer for each developer:
app/views/developers/_form.html.erb
Replace the generated text_field and label for beer_id with the following:
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :beer_id %><br />
<%= collection_select(:developer, :beer_id, @beers, :id, :name, {:prompt => false}) %>
</div>
app/controllers/developer_controller.rb
Edit the controller's new and edit methods:
# GET /developers/new
def new
@developer = Developer.new
@beers = Beer.all
respond_to do |format|
format.html # new.html.erb
end
end
# GET /developers/1/edit
def edit
@beers = Beer.all
respond_to do |format|
format.html # new.html.erb
end
end
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Notes
Rails scaffolding is great. Look at all the files that it creates for you:
$ be rails g scaffold beer name
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20140912144218_create_beers.rb
create app/models/beer.rb
invoke rspec
create spec/models/beer_spec.rb
invoke factory_girl
create spec/factories/beers.rb
invoke resource_route
route resources :beers
invoke scaffold_controller
create app/controllers/beers_controller.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/beers
create app/views/beers/index.html.erb
create app/views/beers/edit.html.erb
create app/views/beers/show.html.erb
create app/views/beers/new.html.erb
create app/views/beers/_form.html.erb
invoke rspec
create spec/controllers/beers_controller_spec.rb
create spec/views/beers/edit.html.erb_spec.rb
create spec/views/beers/index.html.erb_spec.rb
create spec/views/beers/new.html.erb_spec.rb
create spec/views/beers/show.html.erb_spec.rb
create spec/routing/beers_routing_spec.rb
invoke rspec
create spec/requests/beers_spec.rb
invoke helper
create app/helpers/beers_helper.rb
invoke rspec
create spec/helpers/beers_helper_spec.rb
invoke jbuilder
create app/views/beers/index.json.jbuilder
create app/views/beers/show.json.jbuilder
invoke assets
invoke coffee
create app/assets/javascripts/beers.js.coffee
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/beers.css.scss
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss
All you have to do is know which files to modify when you want more than basic CRUD operations.
Hope that helps.
~ Lex
