Rails Nested Form - Creating a new Meeting from Club

Question

I have a User, Meeting, and Club Model.

A User has_many :user_clubs, has_many :clubs, :through => :user_clubs.

A Club has_many :user_clubs, has_many :users, :through => :user_clubs, and has_many :meetings

A Meeting belongs_to :club, and has_many :users

The trouble I'm facing is creating a new meeting through the nested route: http://localhost:3000/clubs/1/meetings/new.

When I attempt to create the meeting I'm getting the validation error "Club must exist." I understand that this can be overridden because the belongs_to association is requiring Club. However, I should not need to override it - as EVERY meeting should belong to a club. I just don't know how to correctly solve the error.

My routes are:

resources :users
resources :clubs do
  resources :meetings, only: [:show, :index, :new, :create, :edit, :update]
end

resources :meetings, only: [:index, :show, :new, :create, :edit, :update]

My Meetings#new action looks like:

def new
  @club = Club.find(params[:club_id])
  @meeting = Meeting.new
end

and Meetings#create:

def create
  binding.pry
  @meeting = Meeting.new(meeting_params)
  if @meeting.save
    binding.pry
    redirect_to club_path, notice: "Meeting was succesfully created."
  else
    render :new
  end
end

My Meetings new template is using form_for(@meeting) do |f|. How do I pass the club that the validation requires to Meetings#create? The flow is: User show page clicks club > Club show page clicks button to create new meeting > Meetings#new page types in name, description, time and clicks create > Meetings#index page I'm unable to get past the Meetings#new page.

Answer 1

Solved. The answer was in my form_for. I needed to change it to:

<%= form_for [@club, @meeting] do |f| %>