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Simple Form Association in HTML Table

I have the following situation. I have two table Student and Course linked via HABTM association.

On Student form, I want to have a list of Courses, however I need more information displayed than a simple checkbox and a label next to it. Essentially, I want to have an HTML table with information from my Course model with a checkbox for the association in the first column of the table.

How can this be accomplished?

Solution

  • Essentially this did it:

    I iterated through my @courses collection and created each checkbox manually like this:

    check_box_tag "student[course_ids][]", course.id

    In my controller params I added this:

    params.require[:student].permit(... ,course_ids: [])

    My Student model needed this:

    accepts_nested_attributes_for :courses

    Pretty simple if you know what you're doing :-)