Drop-Down-Menu for Many-to-Many relation in rails using nested attributes

Question

I have three tables via many-to-many-association: Supermarket, Product and Supply. Each Supermarket can hold many products and each product can be sold in many supermarkets.

Answer 1

In you products form you need to add this line...

<%= collection_select(:product, :supermarket_ids, SuperMarket.all, :id, :name, {}, { :multiple => true } )%>

You also shouldn't need to use an accepts_nested_attributes for this, the many to many association you already have set up should take care of the rest.

Answer 2

I think in views

<%= f.collection_select "super_market_ids[]",@super_markets,:id,:name,{},{:multiple=>"multiple'} %>

I am not sure about super_market_ids or super_market_ids[] and syntax just verified once.

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