dynamic_relationships_to_pages.md

Adding Dynamic Relationships to Static Pages

Here is an example of a pattern you can use to associate objects to your Page models, i.e. for use in a nested form for an item like promos which will exist across many Page objects.

A few things are needed for this to work correctly:

• in the migration you need to add static_page_id as an int column for the new object.

add_column :promos, :static_page_id, :integer

• in the Static Page Concern, you will have to surface it by adding static_page_concern.rb to the model/concerns/fae folder, add a relationship for promos:

module Fae
  module StaticPageConcern
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern

    included do
      has_many :promos, foreign_key: 'static_page_id'
    end

  end
end

• in the objects model you need to set the relationship to :static_page, with the class_name for the Page object.

class Promo < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :static_page, class_name: 'Fae::StaticPage', optional: true

end

• in the objects controller you need to inherit from Fae::NestedBaseController instead of Fae::BaseController

module Admin
  class PromosController < Fae::NestedBaseController
  end
end

• in the Promo model you need to set the fae_nested_parent to :static_page.

def fae_nested_parent
  :static_page
end

• in the nested table arguments, instead of making the parent_item argument item virtual (which is just the instance of the AboutUsPage, which we don't have a column in the database for), you need to make the argument related to static pages more broadly.

 section.content
  = render 'fae/shared/nested_table',
    assoc: :promos,
    parent_item: Fae::StaticPage.find_by_id(@item.id),
    cols: [:headline, :body, :link],
    ordered: true

• The nested form can be wrapped in a class .nested-form for a more inline look.

  .nested-form
    h2 New Promo
    == render 'form

Lastly, in the object form be sure to add the static_page_id as a hidden field in the promo objects form.

= simple_form_for([:admin, @item], html: {multipart: true, novalidate: true, class: 'js-file-form'}, remote: true, data: {type: "html"}) do |f|
  = f.hidden_field :static_page_id

  = f.submit