Hi, I have this requirement where in the association needs to be between 3 models. I want a User to select a Gift to be sent to a particular Destinations. For this I created a Model RequestForGift with foreign keys ( belongs_to ) to the User, Gift and Destination.Then I added the has_many relationships to each of the 3 Models to the other 2, but some how the usage of the association through the models is not comforting class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :RequestForGifts has_many :Gifts, :through => :RequestForGifts, :uniq => true has_many :Destinations, :through => :RequestForGifts, :uniq => true end class Gift < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :RequestForGifts has_many :Users, :through => :RequestForGifts, :uniq => true has_many :Destinations, :through => :RequestForGifts, :uniq => true end class Destination < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :RequestForGifts has_many :Users, :through => :RequestForGifts, :uniq => true has_many :Destinations, :through => :RequestForGifts, :uniq => true end class RequestForGift < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :Gift belongs_to :User belongs_to :Destination end i.e. I am not able to find All the Gifts sent by a User to New Delhi, India Basically i am looking for some code like 1) User.find(params[:id]).gifts.select( |g| { g.destination.name ''New Delhi, India'' } ) I know that the same can be achieved by using the RequestForGift directly :- a) destination_id = Destination.find_by_name ( :first, ''New Delhi, India'' ) RequestForGift.find ( :all, :conditions => [ ''destination_id = ? and user_id = ?'', destination_id, params[:id] ] ).collect ( |r| r.gift ) or b) User.find(params[:id]).requestForGifts.select ( |rfg| rfg.destination.name = ''NewDelhi, India'' ).collect ( |rfg| rfg.gift ) But using query a or b would mean that the :has_many :through requirements that I have written will be of no use, since they are only double associative - The association assumes that only 2 models are involved in the association. I am facing such models at a really high frequency, and a code fragment like query 1, I believe would really mprove understandability, of the code since the association table is never involved in the ruby code. Can someone help me out with the model, or if it is even possible with the current associations that RoR supports? Thanks, Abhin H --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On Dec 16, 3:04 pm, Abhin H <udup...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi, > > I have this requirement where in the association needs to be > between 3 models. > > I want a User to select a Gift to be sent to a particular > Destinations. > For this I created a Model RequestForGiftThat name will be awkward, since the proper English plural would be "RequestsForGifts". Life will be easier if you change the model name to "GiftRequest" and name the table "gift_requests".> with foreign keys > ( belongs_to ) to the User, Gift and Destination.Then I added the > has_many relationships to each of the 3 Models to the other 2, but > some how the usage of the association through the models is not > comforting > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :RequestForGiftsRelationship names should be in lower case with underscores. If you change the model name to "GiftRequest", then you would have: has_many :gift_requests has_many :destinations, :through => :gift_requests, :uniq => true There may be similar problems with your table definitions. I would write: class GiftRequest < ActiveRecord::Base :belongs_to :user :belongs_to :gift :belongs_to :destination ... end and in the migration I would have: add_table :gift_requests do |t| t.add_column :user_id, :integer, :null => false t.add_column :gift_id, ... t.add_column :destination_id, ... end --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
If it''s any consolation, the trend these days is to make association tables into their own models, so perhaps using GiftRequest isn''t so "dirty," after all.> 1) User.find(params[:id]).gifts.select( |g| { g.destination.name = ''New Delhi, India'' } )I don''t think your desired interface would make logical sense in any framework, because a gift of a user has more than one destination. I''m not sure if there could be an interface that would start from User.gifts. So I''d just bite the bullet, treat GiftRequest as a first-class object, and query it directly. ///ark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---