Create a user profile upon registration add profile form fields to devise registrations#new form

Question

I have a rails 3.1 app with devise:

User has_one profile
Profile belongs_to user
Overruled the devise registration_controller
Custom registration views all working fine, registration works fine

Now I could like to add this:

On the registration page I want to add fields from the profile, like first name, lastname
There is no user yet, that is going to be created when submitting the form
I need the profile to be created with this first name,last

How would I do this? I tried several ideas, also from stack overflow but cannot seem to get it working. I tried nested attributes wich is not working the way to do this would to create a profile record in the db at the moment the user registers wich inserts the first name and last name

My registrations#new view:

= simple_form_for(resource, :as => resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name)) do |f|

    = devise_error_messages!

    = f.input :username,                  :label => 'Username'
    = f.input :email,                     :label => 'Email'
    = f.input :password,                  :label => 'Password'
    = f.input :password_confirmation,     :label => 'Password confirm'

    // start fields for profile
    = f.fields_for :profile do |f|
      = f.label :bod_day
      = f.text_field :bod_day
    // end fields for profile


    = f.button :submit, t(:submit, :scope => :register)

In my user model i have this:

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :profile

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '11 at 10:12

I think the problem is that no profile exists on that user when the form is rendered, a simple way to get round this might be to build it in memory before rendering the fields like so:

= simple_form_for(resource, :as => resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name)) do |f|

    = devise_error_messages!

    = f.input :username,                  :label => 'Username'
    = f.input :email,                     :label => 'Email'
    = f.input :password,                  :label => 'Password'
    = f.input :password_confirmation,     :label => 'Password confirm'

    // make a new profile in memory
    = resource.build_profile

    // start fields for profile
    = f.fields_for :profile do |f|
      = f.label :bod_day
      = f.text_field :bod_day
    // end fields for profile


    = f.button :submit, t(:submit, :scope => :register)

Thanks I totally missed this as a relative ruby newbie, sometimes things seem to be less complicated then they look. thx! this fixed my issue with the below addition — Rubytastic, Sep 30 '11 at 11:00
it is a bit "dirty" to initialize the model in the view. I tried overriding the registration controller but there is no "hook" to override the resource initialization without duplicating code. any ideas? — nakhli, May 07 '14 at 07:25

Michael De Silva · Answer 2 · 2011-09-30T10:41:29.180

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In addition to Nesbitt's solution, add this to your model

attr_accessible ..., :profile_attributes

edited Sep 30 '11 at 10:41

answered Sep 30 '11 at 09:44

Michael De Silva

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Always necessary yes, thanks for answer its now finally working correctly – Rubytastic Sep 30 '11 at 11:00
Can you specify in which model should go the attr_accesible ? – Giancarlo Corzo Oct 10 '16 at 17:56

Create a user profile upon registration add profile form fields to devise registrations#new form

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