title: ruby on rails : adding child records to an existing parent without visiting the parent
body: <p>How would you handle allowing users to add child objects to parents without requiring them to navigate to the parent?</p>
  
  <p>For example adding a journal article without having to navigate to the journal and issue first?  The parent also may not exist yet.</p>
  
  <p>I'd prefer not to make data entry to onerous for users so making them find a journal or create it and then find or create an issue seems a bit much.  I would rather just have a single form with journal and issue fields.  The logic would simple if were not for the fact that users are interested in the article and not the journal or issue. </p>
  
  <p>Would you just modify a create for the child so it finds or creates the parents ?</p>