Rails - Sep 2007 - Activerecord Relationships: Can children access parents?

I am having trouble when using a child to reference the parent object
in a relationship, it always claims the parent is nil.  I could easily
be doing something wrong as this is all hazy but I thought I''d ask if
anyone could see anything obvious:

I have two databases:

rulesets
id
name

races
id
name
ruleset_id

A race specifies it''s ruleset so, a ruleset can have many races, but
each race will have only 1 ruleset.  I have specified a foreign key
relationship without a constraint (using mysql "foreign key
(ruleset_id) references rulesets (id)") but my version of MySQL
doesn''t even enforce foreign keys so that shouldn''t help much.
In the
models I have:

class Ruleset < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :races
...

class Race < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :rulesets
...

Then in the controller I have:

@races = Race.find( :all )

And finally in the view:

<% @races.each do |r| %>
  ...
  <%= @r.ruleset.name %>
  ...

And it complains that ruleset is not a valid method for races.  The
book I have on Ruby only talks about doing this sort of access in one
direction (i.e. ruleset.races.<attribute> not
races.ruleset.<attribute>) so I''m not even sure if it''s
possible to
have a child accessing the values of it''s parent.  But if it is, what
am I doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance!!

Chris


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restart your server?
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I just restarted and that did not solve the problem.  I''m using
Webbrick and I''m in development mode, so I''m hoping everything
gets
reloaded each run...  but nevertheless, it was worth a shot.

Chris

On Sep 10, 9:23 am, Dustin Anderson
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wrote:
> restart your server?
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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> class Race < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :rulesets
I think this should be singular:
belongs_to :rulesets

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This worked.  I changed both references to singular and it works now.
Funny, my Rails programming text''s examples show using the plural form
of the DB.  I even checked that to make sure it was plural and not
singular.

Anyway,

belongs_to :ruleset
has_many :races

...did the trick.  Thanks so much!

Chris

On Sep 10, 10:37 am, "toby privett"
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wrote:
>  > class Race < ActiveRecord::Base
>
> >   belongs_to :rulesets
>
> I think this should be singular:
> belongs_to :rulesets

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