Rails - May 2005 - defining a new association I get ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch

I need to add a second client id fkey association in tabel bills. And
I need to get MyObject.second_client.name inside Rails. Right now I do
it on MyObject.client.name.
In the Bills model I''ve defined
belongs_to :client
and I''ve added:
belongs_to :second_client, :class_name => "Client", :foreign_key
=>
"second_client_id"

when I do an update I get  ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch
Client expected, got String
I do the update via this rhtml code:
 <%= select_tag("bills[second_client]",
options_from_collection_for_select(@clientList,"id","name"),
                                "class" => "standard")
%>
its inside a form that call an action doing an update_attributes.

I know bills[second_client] is a string but... when I will show this
item I will need to call MyObject.second_client.name as I aready do
with MyObject.client.name

Maybe I''m missing something on the associations cause I can''t
find the
difference between client and second_client. Someone can help me
please? Thanks,
Enrico

-- 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing"
 Edmund Burke

On 5/4/05, Enrico Teotti <agenteo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I need to add a second client id fkey association in tabel bills. And
> I need to get MyObject.second_client.name inside Rails. Right now I do
> it on MyObject.client.name.
> In the Bills model I''ve defined
> belongs_to :client
> and I''ve added:
> belongs_to :second_client, :class_name => "Client",
:foreign_key =>
> "second_client_id"
> 
> when I do an update I get  ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch
> Client expected, got String
> I do the update via this rhtml code:
>  <%= select_tag("bills[second_client]",
>
options_from_collection_for_select(@clientList,"id","name"),
>                                 "class" =>
"standard") %>
> its inside a form that call an action doing an update_attributes.
> 
> I know bills[second_client] is a string but... when I will show this
> item I will need to call MyObject.second_client.name as I aready do
> with MyObject.client.name
> 
> Maybe I''m missing something on the associations cause I
can''t find the
> difference between client and second_client. Someone can help me
> please? Thanks,
> Enrico
> 
> --
> "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
> is for good men to do nothing"
>  Edmund Burke
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It''s in the name of your select: 
>  <%= select_tag("bills[second_client]",
shoud be:
 <%= select_tag("bills[second_client_id]",

This has something to do with Rails confusing objects & database
fields but I couldn''t tell you exactly what.

Thank you very much! It was that!

-- 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing"
 Edmund Burke