Hi Noel, I see that you have not replied to any threads since November so I'm guess that I might be wasting my time here.....

Anyway, I have a problem with the book.

When I try to edit a recipe using the 'edit' button, the list of ingredients doubles in size.

It's looks like the 'create' method of the ingredients controller is being called whenever the update edit/update method(s) of the recipe controller are called.

Anyone else having this problem? What is the best way of dealing with this?

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Stephen,

Let's lower the temperature here a bit.

a) It's been two days since you've posted here and I've been on vacation for half of that time. Also, this isn't my day job, so my time for digging through this is limited.

b) I will take a look at this issue and try to get back to you later this week.

Noel

thanks, just keeping you all on your toes.

i know it was a bit cheeky.

I was under the impression that the board was not being read as there are questions posted in november which have not had any replies.

appologies

is there any word on this? the problem still occurs.

is there any word on this? the problem still occurs.

Here's what's happening:

I create a recipe with '1 can beans' as an ingredient,
Then I decide that I need to edit the description of the recipe so I click the 'edit recipe' button
When I hit submit, there are now 2 entries for '1 can beans'.
If I edit the description (or anything else) again, there will be 4 entries for '1 can beans'

If however, after clicking 'edit recipe' I remove the entries for '1 can beans' from the edit form, then the number of entries for '1 can beans' remains as it was, it does not increase in size and it does not decrease in size.

This happens using the code I wrote whilst following along and it also happens if I just run the exact code from the downloaded zip file provided here at wrox.com

I'm confused.

The amazing thing about this is that I somehow didn't catch it before the book came out.

Anyway, what's happening here is a common mistake in parent/child relationships...

When you submit the recipe form, the text of the ingredients is in the field, which is then set using the method , which parses the strings and then adds them to the to the ingredient list [code]self.ingredients << ingredient[code]. The problem is that the original ingredients are still there, so the new ones are added on top of the originals, in effect duplicating the ingredients.

The workaround would be to start the method with something like , but you'd want to put that in some kind of transaction block so that the ingredients aren't deleted incorrectly.

Sorry for the wait, hope this helps.

Hi

thanks a lot for the resolution

I've not tried it yet as I'm in work but I will give it a shot when I get home,

Incidentally, I developed a workaround by just removing the ingredients from the from but it will be nice fix it.

thanks
Steve