Rails - Apr 2005 - Nuby Model Problems - All Help Sincerely Appreciated!

I''m new to Rails too, but I think I can give you some pointers.

My app at the moment is similar, but instead of ''articles''
that belong
to a ''user'' I have ''snippets'' that belong to
a ''scrapbook''.

So, my code to get the snippets for a scrapbook:

controller:

  def index
    @user = @session[''user'']
    @scrapbook = @user.scrapbook
  end

view: index.rhtml

<p>
<% for @snippet in @scrapbook.snippets.find_all %>
  <%= render_partial "listSnippets", @snippet %>
<% end %>
</p>

_listSnippets partial:

<p><a href="/snippet/show/<%= @snippet.id %>"><%=
@snippet.title %></p>


I hope that helps you a little. One thing you seem to be getting mixed
up with is that a ''user'' doesn''t belong to an
''article'', but rather
''articles'' belong to a ''user''. So, to access
your articles you use
@user.articles.find_all . I think your model''s correct though.

Cheers,
Ben

On Apr 5, 2005 1:37 PM, Michael Klein
<michaelklein-fliffHUUhfJg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''ve recently developed a huge interest in Ruby on Rails and have
read
> several articles and many tutorials.
> 
> Now I am attempting to write my own application.
> 
> First off I am trying to make a simple post site. A very basic blog you
> could say. I have installed the user system with "script/generate
login
> Account". I have the following two tables.
> 
> CREATE TABLE articles(
>   id int(6) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
>   content text NOT NULL,
>   title tinytext NOT NULL,
>   created_on timestamp NOT NULL default ''0000-00-00
00:00:00'',
>   updated_on timestamp NULL default NULL,
>   user_id int(4) NOT NULL default ''0'',
>   PRIMARY KEY  (id)
> );
> 
> CREATE TABLE users(
>   `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
>   login varchar(80) default NULL,
>   `password` varchar(40) default NULL,
>   firstname varchar(80) default NULL,
>   lastname varchar(80) default NULL,
>   PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
> );
> 
> I have created an Article controller which serves to show all of my
> articles.
> This is done through the show.rhtml:
> 
> <% @article.each do |article| %>
> <h3><%= article.title %></h2>
> <p class="date">Written on <%=
article.created_on.strftime "%e %B %Y @
> %I:%M %p" %></p>
> <p class="article_content"><%= article.content
%></p>
> <p class="author">Written by <%= article.user
%></p>
> <% end %>
> 
> The @article instance variable is declared in article_controller.rb
> under "def show" as "@article = Article.find_all" The
problem occurs
> whenever I try and have it display the correct author, where it says
> "Written by". I have tried <%= article.user.firstname %>
rather than <%> article.user %> (which generates a "#" sign)
and expected it to work,
> but "firstname" gives a "NoMethodError". I realize this
problem probably
> comes from my two models.
> 
> My article.rb model says "belongs_to :user" and my user.rb model
says
> "has_many :articles". I struggle to understand when to make
things
> plural or singular so I have tried :user/:articles, :users/:articles,
> :users/:article, and :user/:article. None of these are working for me.
> It seems as :articles/:user would make most sense. I thought the foreign
> key "user_id" would help link these two, like its supposed to.
> 
> Whenever I just say "<p class="author">Written by
<%= article.user.id
> %></p>" it actually puts out the id of the user that wrote
the post. But
> when "id" is changed to "firstname" or
"login" or "lastname" it doesn''t
> work. (This is using  has_many :articles and belongs_to :user.)
> 
> If someone can please point out my error I would appreciate it VERY
> much! Thanks in advance!
> 
> Michael
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I''ve recently developed a huge interest in Ruby on Rails and have read 
several articles and many tutorials.

Now I am attempting to write my own application.

First off I am trying to make a simple post site. A very basic blog you 
could say. I have installed the user system with "script/generate login 
Account". I have the following two tables.

CREATE TABLE articles(
  id int(6) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  content text NOT NULL,
  title tinytext NOT NULL,
  created_on timestamp NOT NULL default ''0000-00-00 00:00:00'',
  updated_on timestamp NULL default NULL,
  user_id int(4) NOT NULL default ''0'',
  PRIMARY KEY  (id)
);

CREATE TABLE users(
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  login varchar(80) default NULL,
  `password` varchar(40) default NULL,
  firstname varchar(80) default NULL,
  lastname varchar(80) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
);

I have created an Article controller which serves to show all of my 
articles.
This is done through the show.rhtml:

<% @article.each do |article| %>
<h3><%= article.title %></h2>
<p class="date">Written on <%= article.created_on.strftime
"%e %B %Y @
%I:%M %p" %></p>
<p class="article_content"><%= article.content
%></p>
<p class="author">Written by <%= article.user %></p>
<% end %>

The @article instance variable is declared in article_controller.rb 
under "def show" as "@article = Article.find_all" The
problem occurs
whenever I try and have it display the correct author, where it says 
"Written by". I have tried <%= article.user.firstname %> rather
than <%=
article.user %> (which generates a "#" sign) and expected it to
work,
but "firstname" gives a "NoMethodError". I realize this
problem probably
comes from my two models.

My article.rb model says "belongs_to :user" and my user.rb model says 
"has_many :articles". I struggle to understand when to make things 
plural or singular so I have tried :user/:articles, :users/:articles, 
:users/:article, and :user/:article. None of these are working for me. 
It seems as :articles/:user would make most sense. I thought the foreign 
key "user_id" would help link these two, like its supposed to.

Whenever I just say "<p class="author">Written by <%=
article.user.id
%></p>" it actually puts out the id of the user that wrote the
post. But
when "id" is changed to "firstname" or "login" or
"lastname" it doesn''t
work. (This is using  has_many :articles and belongs_to :user.)

If someone can please point out my error I would appreciate it VERY 
much! Thanks in advance!

Michael
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Michael Klein wrote:

| <% @article.each do |article| %>
| <h3><%= article.title %></h2>
| <p class="date">Written on <%= article.created_on.strftime
"%e %B %Y @
| %I:%M %p" %></p>
| <p class="article_content"><%= article.content
%></p>
| <p class="author">Written by <%= article.user
%></p>
| <% end %>
|
| The @article instance variable is declared in article_controller.rb
| under "def show" as "@article = Article.find_all" The
problem occurs

| Whenever I just say "<p class="author">Written by <%=
article.user.id
| %></p>" it actually puts out the id of the user that wrote the
post. But
| when "id" is changed to "firstname" or "login"
or "lastname" it doesn''t
| work. (This is using  has_many :articles and belongs_to :user.)
|

pluralization is actually quite simple... use it as it naturally sounds.
find_all returns multiple articles, right?  Then it should say:
@articles = Article.find_all

and then in the view: @articles.each do |article|

I''m not sure what happens when you have a "@article" and a
"article",
but that sounds like a bad idea.

You had it right in the model, belongs_to :user  and has_many :articles

Ok, but the real problem is article is an object that has the article
info, but it doesn''t have the user info. To get at the user info, you
need to call it like article.user.lastname




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shouldn''t it be

@articles.each do |article|

then you just do article.title or article.content etc...

Trevor

Michael Klein wrote:
> Ok, so i''ve changed a few things.
> Now my show.rhtml looks like this:
> 
> <% @articles.each do |@articles| %>
> <h3><%= @articles.title %></h2>
> <p class="date">Written on <%=
@articles.created_on.strftime "%e %B %Y @
> %I:%M
> %p" %></p>
> <p class="article_content"><%= @articles.content
%></p>
> <p class="author">Written by <%=
@articles.user.firstname %></p>
> <% end %>
> 
> But this is still generating an error. firstname is an unidentified method,
> still. I didn''t change my user.rb model says "has_many
:articles" and my
> article.rb "belongs_to :user". I didn''t change my
article_controller.rb
> from
> saying: "@articles = Article.find_all".
> 
> I am seriously confused about what is wrong. Thanks for the help from 
> David and
> Ben, please followup if you can!
> 
>  > pluralization is actually quite simple... use it as it naturally
sounds.
>  > find_all returns multiple articles, right?  Then it should say:
>  >  <at> articles = Article.find_all
>  >
>  > and then in the view:  <at> articles.each do |article|
>  >
>  > I''m not sure what happens when you have a " <at>
article" and a
> "article",
>  > but that sounds like a bad idea.
>  >
>  > You had it right in the model, belongs_to :user  and has_many
:articles
>  >
>  > Ok, but the real problem is article is an object that has the article
>  > info, but it doesn''t have the user info. To get at the user
info, you
>  > need to call it like article.user.lastname
>  >
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On Apr 4, 2005 10:56 PM, Michael Klein
<michaelklein-fliffHUUhfJg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Now my show.rhtml looks like this:
> 
> <% @articles.each do |@articles| %>
Um, no... you''ve misunderstood something somewhere. First, the
"show"
action by default is meant to just show one article, not list them all
(this is what the "list" action is for). If you''ve changed
that,
that''s fine (like I said, these are just defaults, not anything that
is enforced by rails), but you might be getting a bit confused about
it and it''s messing you up. Dunno.

Secondly, "@articles.each do |@articles|" doesn''t mean
anything... you
can''t have the same variable as your iterator as the collection
you''re
iterating over. This should surely be "@articles.each do |article|"
> <h3><%= @articles.title %></h2>
article.title
> <p class="date">Written on <%=
@articles.created_on.strftime "%e %B %Y @
article.created.on...
> <p class="article_content"><%= @articles.content
%></p>
article.content
> <p class="author">Written by <%=
@articles.user.firstname %></p>
This one should work fine as article.user.firstname. The only thing i
can think of is, is the "firstname" field set to null in your db?

In my rails project I have articles that "belongs_to :category" and
categories that "has_many :articles". I don''t actually use
this, but I
just tested it, just for you, and "@article.category.name" worked fine
for me ("name" being a field in the category table). Keep in mind
though, this is in my "show" action, where there is only one @article
object, I''m not iterating over the list of them. So in your show
action where you''re iterating over all of them, it''d have to
be
"article.user.firstname".
> But this is still generating an error. firstname is an unidentified method,
> still. I didn''t change my user.rb model says "has_many
:articles" and my
> article.rb "belongs_to :user". I didn''t change my
article_controller.rb from
> saying: "@articles = Article.find_all".
Well, I think it would help a lot if you simply attached your
article_controller.rb, article.rb and user.rb files in their entirety
so that we can see exactly what is happening instead of trying to go
by what you''re saying. At least that would help me figure out
what''s
wrong.

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Ok, so i''ve changed a few things.
Now my show.rhtml looks like this:

<% @articles.each do |@articles| %>
<h3><%= @articles.title %></h2>
<p class="date">Written on <%= @articles.created_on.strftime
"%e %B %Y @
%I:%M
%p" %></p>
<p class="article_content"><%= @articles.content
%></p>
<p class="author">Written by <%= @articles.user.firstname
%></p>
<% end %>

But this is still generating an error. firstname is an unidentified method,
still. I didn''t change my user.rb model says "has_many
:articles" and my
article.rb "belongs_to :user". I didn''t change my
article_controller.rb from
saying: "@articles = Article.find_all".

I am seriously confused about what is wrong. Thanks for the help from 
David and
Ben, please followup if you can!

 > pluralization is actually quite simple... use it as it naturally sounds.
 > find_all returns multiple articles, right?  Then it should say:
 >  <at> articles = Article.find_all
 >
 > and then in the view:  <at> articles.each do |article|
 >
 > I''m not sure what happens when you have a " <at>
article" and a
"article",
 > but that sounds like a bad idea.
 >
 > You had it right in the model, belongs_to :user  and has_many :articles
 >
 > Ok, but the real problem is article is an object that has the article
 > info, but it doesn''t have the user info. To get at the user info,
you
 > need to call it like article.user.lastname
 >
 > --
 > David Morton
 > Maia Mailguard server side anti-spam/anti-virus solution:
 > http://www.maiamailguard.com
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More changes, as recommended:
>First, the "show"
>action by default is meant to just show one article, not list them all
>(this is what the "list" action is for). If you''ve
changed that,
>that''s fine (like I said, these are just defaults, not anything
that
>is enforced by rails), but you might be getting a bit confused about
>it and it''s messing you up. Dunno.
I''ve changed my action from "show" to "list", like
you said - it makes a
lot more sense
>Secondly, " <at> articles.each do | <at> articles|"
doesn''t mean
anything... you
>can''t have the same variable as your iterator as the collection
you''re
>iterating over. This should surely be " <at> articles.each do
|article|"
The new list.rhtml is :

<% @articles.each do |article| %>
<h3><%= article.title %></h2>
<p class="date">Written on <%= article.created_on.strftime
"%e %B %Y @
%I:%M %p" %></p>
<p class="article_content"><%= article.content
%></p>
<p class="author">Written by <%= article.user.firstname
%></p>
<% end %>

Once again articles.user.firstname generates a "NoMethodError".
>This one should work fine as article.user.firstname. The only thing I
>can think of is, is the "firstname" field set to null in your db?
I can assure you that I do have experience with MySQL and this isn''t
set
to null.
>Well, I think it would help a lot if you simply attached your
>article_controller.rb, article.rb and user.rb files in their entirety
>so that we can see exactly what is happening instead of trying to go
>by what you''re saying. At least that would help me figure out
what''s
>wrong.
The links to the files requested are:

article_controller.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/article_controller.rb
article.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/article.rb
user.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/user.rb
list.rhtml - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/list.rhtml

I have decided to just go ahead and zip the entire app, the entire 10
lines of code that I''ve actually made myself.

http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/modelhelpapp.zip

Thank you all so much for your help - especially Rob.

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Very basic suggestion - you probably already thought of it - but are
you using fastcgi at all?

If you made changes to your controller or model, you need to restart
your web server to make them current, or at least that''s what I found
I needed to do. Perhaps there''s a better way than restarting, but I
just run my own lighttpd daemon so restarting is easy enough for me.

Ben

On Apr 5, 2005 10:58 PM, Michael Klein
<michaelklein-fliffHUUhfJg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> More changes, as recommended:
> 
> >First, the "show"
> >action by default is meant to just show one article, not list them all
> >(this is what the "list" action is for). If you''ve
changed that,
> >that''s fine (like I said, these are just defaults, not
anything that
> >is enforced by rails), but you might be getting a bit confused about
> >it and it''s messing you up. Dunno.
> 
> I''ve changed my action from "show" to "list",
like you said - it makes a
> lot more sense
> 
> >Secondly, " <at> articles.each do | <at>
articles|" doesn''t mean
> anything... you
> >can''t have the same variable as your iterator as the
collection you''re
> >iterating over. This should surely be " <at> articles.each
do |article|"
> 
> The new list.rhtml is :
> 
> <% @articles.each do |article| %>
> <h3><%= article.title %></h2>
> <p class="date">Written on <%=
article.created_on.strftime "%e %B %Y @
> %I:%M %p" %></p>
> <p class="article_content"><%= article.content
%></p>
> <p class="author">Written by <%= article.user.firstname
%></p>
> <% end %>
> 
> Once again articles.user.firstname generates a "NoMethodError".
> 
> >This one should work fine as article.user.firstname. The only thing I
> >can think of is, is the "firstname" field set to null in your
db?
> 
> I can assure you that I do have experience with MySQL and this
isn''t set
> to null.
> 
> >Well, I think it would help a lot if you simply attached your
> >article_controller.rb, article.rb and user.rb files in their entirety
> >so that we can see exactly what is happening instead of trying to go
> >by what you''re saying. At least that would help me figure out
what''s
> >wrong.
> 
> The links to the files requested are:
> 
> article_controller.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/article_controller.rb
> article.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/article.rb
> user.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/user.rb
> list.rhtml - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/list.rhtml
> 
> I have decided to just go ahead and zip the entire app, the entire 10
> lines of code that I''ve actually made myself.
> 
> http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/modelhelpapp.zip
> 
> Thank you all so much for your help - especially Rob.
> 
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On 5.4.2005, at 19:34, Ben Myles wrote:
> Very basic suggestion - you probably already thought of it - but are
> you using fastcgi at all?
>
> If you made changes to your controller or model, you need to restart
> your web server to make them current, or at least that''s what I
found
> I needed to do. Perhaps there''s a better way than restarting, but
I
> just run my own lighttpd daemon so restarting is easy enough for me.
This is only true if you''re running in production mode. In development 
mode they are loaded for every request. You can set the environment in 
your lighttpd config file:

fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
   ( "localhost" =>
       (
         "min-procs" => 1,
         "max-procs" => 5,
         "socket"   => "/tmp/diary.fcgi.socket",
         "bin-path" =>
"/Users/jarkko/Sites/diary/public/dispatch.fcgi",
         "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"development" )
       )
   )
)

Alternatively, you can also set it in your config/environment.rb file.

//jarkko

>
> Ben
>
> On Apr 5, 2005 10:58 PM, Michael Klein
<michaelklein-fliffHUUhfJg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>> More changes, as recommended:
>>
>>> First, the "show"
>>> action by default is meant to just show one article, not list them 
>>> all
>>> (this is what the "list" action is for). If
you''ve changed that,
>>> that''s fine (like I said, these are just defaults, not
anything that
>>> is enforced by rails), but you might be getting a bit confused
about
>>> it and it''s messing you up. Dunno.
>>
>> I''ve changed my action from "show" to
"list", like you said - it
>> makes a
>> lot more sense
>>
>>> Secondly, " <at> articles.each do | <at>
articles|" doesn''t mean
>> anything... you
>>> can''t have the same variable as your iterator as the
collection
>>> you''re
>>> iterating over. This should surely be " <at>
articles.each do
>>> |article|"
>>
>> The new list.rhtml is :
>>
>> <% @articles.each do |article| %>
>> <h3><%= article.title %></h2>
>> <p class="date">Written on <%=
article.created_on.strftime "%e %B %Y @
>> %I:%M %p" %></p>
>> <p class="article_content"><%= article.content
%></p>
>> <p class="author">Written by <%=
article.user.firstname %></p>
>> <% end %>
>>
>> Once again articles.user.firstname generates a
"NoMethodError".
>>
>>> This one should work fine as article.user.firstname. The only thing
I
>>> can think of is, is the "firstname" field set to null in
your db?
>>
>> I can assure you that I do have experience with MySQL and this
isn''t
>> set
>> to null.
>>
>>> Well, I think it would help a lot if you simply attached your
>>> article_controller.rb, article.rb and user.rb files in their
entirety
>>> so that we can see exactly what is happening instead of trying to
go
>>> by what you''re saying. At least that would help me figure
out what''s
>>> wrong.
>>
>> The links to the files requested are:
>>
>> article_controller.rb - 
>> http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/article_controller.rb
>> article.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/article.rb
>> user.rb - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/user.rb
>> list.rhtml - http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/list.rhtml
>>
>> I have decided to just go ahead and zip the entire app, the entire 10
>> lines of code that I''ve actually made myself.
>>
>> http://swilly.tk/~klein/ruby/modelhelpapp.zip
>>
>> Thank you all so much for your help - especially Rob.
>>
>> ---
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>>
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Thanks a million! That will make life a lot easier. I think I might
start compiling an FAQ page from the useful advice on this list.

Ben

On Apr 6, 2005 2:40 AM, Jarkko Laine
<jarkko-k1O+Gnc6WpmsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> This is only true if you''re running in production mode. In
development
> mode they are loaded for every request. You can set the environment in
> your lighttpd config file:
> 
> fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" =>
>    ( "localhost" =>
>        (
>          "min-procs" => 1,
>          "max-procs" => 5,
>          "socket"   => "/tmp/diary.fcgi.socket",
>          "bin-path" =>
"/Users/jarkko/Sites/diary/public/dispatch.fcgi",
>          "bin-environment" => ( "RAILS_ENV" =>
"development" )
>        )
>    )
> )
> 
> Alternatively, you can also set it in your config/environment.rb file.
> 
> //jarkko

Ben Myles <ben.myles@...> writes:
> 
> Very basic suggestion - you probably already thought of it - but are
> you using fastcgi at all?
> 
> If you made changes to your controller or model, you need to restart
> your web server to make them current, or at least that''s what I
found
> I needed to do. Perhaps there''s a better way than restarting, but
I
> just run my own lighttpd daemon so restarting is easy enough for me.
> 
> Ben

I''m just using the included script/server - WEBrick 1.3.1. I
don''t think it
needs resarting, but I went ahead and did so but my artilce.user.firstname still
doesn''t work..

Rob,

I think "desperate" would accurately describe me and my rails app 
situation now. Sounds like a good idea, its probably just some typo or 
something that I can''t find. I think this time I might try to fool 
around with "has_and_belongs_to_many" with my database. Thanks for all
your help, its really been great. Consider this case "solved."

Michael

Rob Park <rbpark@...> writes:

 >
 > On Apr 5, 2005 12:03 PM, Michael Klein <michaelklein@...> wrote:
 > > I''m just using the included script/server - WEBrick 1.3.1. I
don''t
think it
 > > needs resarting, but I went ahead and did so but my 
artilce.user.firstname still
 > > doesn''t work..
 >
 > yeah, webrick should be fine. That''s bizarre though... your code
looks
 > fine to me, I''m not sure why it''s not working. Pretty
much that exact
 > code works fine in my rails project.
 >
 > If I was in your situation, and I was getting desperate, what I''d
try
 > doing is to just start a whole new rails project (make sure you have
 > the latest version of ruby, and rails), and then instead of writing
 > "scaffold :articles", I''d actually generate the
scaffold code
 > outright, so that you can see it and poke around with it.
 >
 > So make a new rails project, copy over your old database.yml file, and
 > then instead of doing "ruby script/generate model Articles",
just do
 > "ruby script/generate scaffold Article", and have a look at the
code
 > it produces. Then add in your "belongs_to" and
"has_many", and see if
 > you can get it working from there.
 >
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On Apr 5, 2005 12:03 PM, Michael Klein
<michaelklein-fliffHUUhfJg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m just using the included script/server - WEBrick 1.3.1. I
don''t think it
> needs resarting, but I went ahead and did so but my artilce.user.firstname
still
> doesn''t work..
yeah, webrick should be fine. That''s bizarre though... your code looks
fine to me, I''m not sure why it''s not working. Pretty much
that exact
code works fine in my rails project.

If I was in your situation, and I was getting desperate, what I''d try
doing is to just start a whole new rails project (make sure you have
the latest version of ruby, and rails), and then instead of writing
"scaffold :articles", I''d actually generate the scaffold code
outright, so that you can see it and poke around with it.

So make a new rails project, copy over your old database.yml file, and
then instead of doing "ruby script/generate model Articles", just do
"ruby script/generate scaffold Article", and have a look at the code
it produces. Then add in your "belongs_to" and "has_many",
and see if
you can get it working from there.

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