Rails3 seed data nested attribute

Question

What am I doing wrong here? The forms work but keep getting \"undefined method `to_i\' for :street1:Symbol\" when trying to seed data.

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Answer 1

accepts_nested_attributes_for :foo is so that you can create forms which create associated records. When you're building things in code, there's no need to use this. You can create the associated records using the association names instead of "address_attributes". Here's one way of doing it, but Rails does expose a bunch of ways of doing this same thing...

["Company A", "Company B", "Company C", "Company D"].each do |c|
  vendor_address = Address.new :street1 => Faker::Address.street_address,
                               :city => Faker::Address.city,
                               :state => Faker::Address.us_state_abbr,
                               :zipcode => Faker::Address.zip_code,
                               :address_type => "Vendor"

  Vendor.create! :name => c,
                 :contact => Faker::Name.name,
                 :phone => Faker::PhoneNumber.phone_number,
                 :addresses => [vendor_address]
end

If you are wanting to try and use the nested attributes way, then you don't need the :vendor => {} part of the hash, you can go straight into the params, and you need addresses_attributes to be an array, not a hash.