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Documentation suggestion for nested forms - HasOne

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#1,013 opened on Oct 25, 2017

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Description

It would be useful to explain that in order to have a has_one association in a form, one has to add

  has_one :thing
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :thing

to the parent model. Saying this because the Field::HasOne already supports nested form and allows the params.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/blob/3366bd10a4afaf5bc0c63ea0f5ecc12b5d1bae31/lib/administrate/field/has_one.rb#L8

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Add documentation explaining that for has one association in Administrate forms, the parent model must include 'has one :thing' and 'accepts nested attributes for :thing'.
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