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    copied!<p>I have one to many relationship between 'events' and 'tasks' and within show.html.erb I have render the following view:</p> <pre><code>&lt;%= form_for([@event, @event.tasks.build]) do |f| %&gt; &lt;div class="field"&gt; &lt;%= f.label :"Task name" %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;%= f.text_field :name %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class='cbx'&gt; &lt;%= f.label :'Assign To' %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;% for account in Account.find(:all) %&gt; &lt;%= check_box_tag "task[account_id][]", account.id %&gt; &lt;%= account.username %&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="actions"&gt; &lt;%= f.submit %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; </code></pre> <p>and when i actually process selection on the form it gives me the 1 in account_id, i have no idea why is this so</p> <p>Looking at the development log, found the following:</p> <pre><code> Started POST "/events/2/tasks" for 127.0.0.1 at Thu Jun 30 13:25:59 +1000 2011 Processing by TasksController#create as HTML Parameters: {"commit"=&gt;"Create Task", "event_id"=&gt;"2","authenticity_token"=&gt;"oSxcZZ/NCH+OyP+UoRSMvmHCP1daPbmJBeJM6tLxhyA=", "utf8"=&gt;"✓", "task"=&gt;{"name"=&gt;"t", "account_id"=&gt;["6"]}} Event Load (0.2ms) SELECT "events".* FROM "events" WHERE "events"."id" = 2 LIMIT 1 AREL (0.4ms) INSERT INTO "tasks" ("created_at", "user_id", "event_id", "updated_at", "name", "account_id") VALUES ('2011-06-30 03:25:59.327287', NULL, 2, '2011-06-30 03:25:59.327287', 't', 1) </code></pre> <p>Do you have any idea why is this so? why it puts 6 in account_id but doesn't update the database?</p> <p>And if you have any other comments please feel free to comment, I'm beginner so I really wish to learn a lot.</p> <p>Thank you in advance</p>
 

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