Add record to a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship

Question

I have two models, users and promotions. The idea is that a promotion can have many users, and a user can have many promotions.

class User < ActiveRecord::Bas         


        

Answer 1

If you want to add a User to a Promotion using a prototypical PromotionsController CRUD setup and you're not using Rails form helpers, you can format the params as:

params = {id: 1, promotion: { id: 1, user_ids: [2] }}

This allows you to keep the controller slim, e.g., you don't have to add anything special to the update method.

class PromotionsController < ApplicationController

  def update
    promotion.update(promotion_params)

    # simplified error handling
    if promotion.errors.none?
      render json: {message: 'Success'}, status: :ok
    else
      render json: post.errors.full_messages, status: :bad_request
    end
  end

  private

  def promotions_params
    params.require(:promotion).permit!
  end

  def promotion
    @promotion ||= Promotion.find(params[:id])
  end
end

The result would be:

irb(main)> Promotion.find(1).users
=> #]>