通过休息api填充模型

Question

I'm currently working on a rails app where I have two model classes, Account and User. I want to allow users to link their User with account information from other places.

What I want the user to be able to do is, under my edit user form, I have a list displaying the names of all linked accounts, and a text input for them to add more.

All I want them to do is fill in one field (account name) and hit a button, and the back end will hit a restful API for that account name, pull back relevant info, and populate an Account model object, linking to the current user.

For example, from the user page I would like the user to be able to type in their twitter handle, and in the back end I'd look up that twitter account id and associate it with that User in my database.

Where is the right place to have a hook so that I can take an input (twitter handle), fire off a helper method that populates a Account object, and then link that to my current user?

Answer 1

我不确定我到底知道你在问什么，但我会尽我所能：如果你的帐户'belongs_to'你的用户模型，使用你的创建或更新方法（取决于你的标准情况）似乎合乎逻辑帐户控制器，用于检索具有帐户数据的JSON，以及客户端解析此答案（使用某些JS）。