Fields not being rendered about best_in_place HOT 5 CLOSED

best in place already knows that your attribute is a foreign key if you set :type to :select, so instead of ":case_status_id" it must be ":case_status".

To display the value best in place calls your object with that attribute, so the resulting call:
@case.case_status_id

makes no sense and nothing is displayed.

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Thanks @rogercampos for your very fast reply.

I think the problem is greater than that. Here is a second example of a field:

<%= best_in_place @case, :case_type, :type => :select, :collection => @types %>

and my case_status re-written:

<%= best_in_place @case, :case_status, :type => :select, :collection => @statuses.map { |e| [e.name, e.id] } %>

In both cases nothing is rendered in the view.

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My problem with:

<%= best_in_place @case, :case_type, :type => :select, :collection => @types %>

was that the @types was in the wrong format - I was passing ['New Functionality','Service Degraded','Preventative Maintenance'] instead of [['New Functionality','New Functionality'], ['Service Degraded','Service Degraded'], ['Preventative Maintenance','Preventative Maintenance']]

Now that I understand the format of the :collection parameter I cannot understand why the other field is not working:

<%= best_in_place @case, :role, :type => :select, :collection => Role.all.map{ |e| [e.id, e.name] } %>

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I have just modified to:
<%= best_in_place @case, :role_id, :type => :select, :collection => Role.all.map{ |e| [e.id, e.name] } %>

and it works - seems it does need the _id ?

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Thanks - ill close this one off.

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