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copied!<p>I'm not sure if I'm asking this question right or am just too tired for it to be obvious.</p> <p>My code is:</p> <p>_form.html.haml</p> <pre><code> = f.collection_select :category, Category.where(:user_id => current_user.id), :id, :name </code></pre> <p>What I get is </p> <pre><code> ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in LinksController#create Category(#70203963939880) expected, got String(#70203929255820) </code></pre> <p>Log is</p> <pre><code> Started POST "/links" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-12 22:14:05 -0800 Processing by LinksController#create as HTML Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"z4RYcUW3hGLfKBAwQLMZbye2I1mn16fg6BSBGe7GILU=", "link"=>{"name"=>"SFGate", "url"=>"http://www.sfgate.com/", "category"=>"1"}, "commit"=>"Save"} Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 0ms </code></pre> <p>It appears as though its passing :id as a string instead of an integer. Any clues?</p> <p>Update:</p> <pre><code>class Category < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user has_many :links attr_accessible :name, :color, :position COLOR_CODES = ["Green", "Blue", "Yellow", "Orange", "Red", "Purple", "Pink"] end class Link < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user belongs_to :category attr_accessible :category, :name, :position, :url, :user_id end </code></pre> <p>Fixed: I had </p> <pre><code> t.integer :category </code></pre> <p>instead of </p> <pre><code> t.integer :category_id </code></pre> <p>switched everything over and its working perfect - I guess I was too tired :)</p>

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