Problem saving resource using form.fields_for

[polivers]

Hi all,
I have a couple of models, User and Post.

A user has_many :posts, and I've set this up with Her (I can hit /users/1 and /posts/1 to fetch those resources).

In my API, the User model has this:

has_many :posts
accepts_nested_attributes_for :posts

And in my HER app, I have a view like:

<%= form_for @user do |form| %>
  <%= form.text_field :username %>
  <%= form.fields_for :posts do |posts_form| %>
    <%= posts_form.text_field :title %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

The form renders perfectly, with field names like user[posts_attributes][0][title], however when I try to create a post, Her doesn't send the request to my API and instead returns this error:

no implicit conversion of nil into Hash

It seems to be related to the to_params(attributes, changes={}) call in parse.rb, this line in particular returns nil:

filtered_attributes.merge!(embeded_params(attributes))

For some reason, embedded params returns nil and filtered_attributes.merge! raises the exception.

Anybody else had similar issues? Any help much appreciated!

Rails version 4.1.1, Her 0.7.2

[polivers]

Hi all,
I'm not getting very far in solving my issues with Her, unfortunately.

My User model has_many :posts, with accepts_nested_attributes_for :posts, and my form submits fields like:
user[posts_attributes][0][title] which update Her's @user.posts[0].title attribute, all as expected and what I want. and I THEN do @user.save - I'm expecting my api to receive user[posts_attributes].

My form can even nest another level down, Her handle's it and objects in my controller are updated perfectly:

<%= form_for @user do |form| %>
    <%= form.text_field :name %>
    <%= form.fields_for :posts do |posts_form| %>
        <%= posts_form.text_field :title %>

        <%= posts_form.fields_for :tags do |post_tags_form| %>
            <%= post_tags_form.text_field :ids %>
        <% end %>
    <% end %>

    <%= form.submit %>
<% end %>

However, Her seems to just send user[posts] - so the models in my API, which are ActiveRecord models, with their own User has_many :posts and accepts_nested_attributes_for :posts, don't work.

It's also sending the object of the belongs_to association as an attribute of the POST data. For example:

"user" => {
    "posts" => [
        { 
            "name" => "Post name"
            "user"  => "#<User:0x007f0e55011570>"
        }
    ]
}

I'm not sure why "user" => "#<User:0x007f0e55011570>" is there?

Unless I'm doing something obviously wrong, it looks like I'm going to have to give up with using Her and re-write everything as a single Rails app.
Would be very disappointing as it's absolutely great when it works.

thanks for reading.