Rails - Mar 2009 - Association broken when upgrading from rails 1.2.6 to 2.2.2

I have an app with the following models:
course
belongs_to :semester

semester
has_many: courses
belongs_to :education

education
has_many :semesters

In my old app (rails 1.2.6) I was able to access variables via

controller
@courses = Course.find(:all)

view file:
<% for course in @courses %>
<%= course.name %> <- this line works
<%= course.semester.name %> <- this is now broke
<%= course.semester.education.name %> <-this is now broken.

When upgrading to rails 2.2.2 all this is broken.
What changed?

I only changed the enviroment.rb to rails 2.2.2 and did rake
rails:upgrade
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On Mar 6, 9:35 am,
"gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> In my old app (rails 1.2.6) I was able to access variables via
>
> controller
> @courses = Course.find(:all)
>
> view file:
> <% for course in @courses %>
> <%= course.name %> <- this line works
> <%= course.semester.name %> <- this is now broke
> <%= course.semester.education.name %> <-this is now broken.
>
> When upgrading to rails 2.2.2 all this is broken.
In what way is it broken ? What happens ?

Fred
> What changed?
>
> I only changed the enviroment.rb to rails 2.2.2 and did rake
> rails:upgrade
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Error:
You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.name

the view
  <%= link_to course.semester.name, :controller =>
''reporting'', :action => ''new'', :id =>
course.id %>

the database:


On Mar 6, 11:35 am, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Mar 6, 9:35 am,
"gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> > In my old app (rails 1.2.6) I was able to access variables via
>
> > controller
> > @courses = Course.find(:all)
>
> > view file:
> > <% for course in @courses %>
> > <%= course.name %> <- this line works
> > <%= course.semester.name %> <- this is now broke
> > <%= course.semester.education.name %> <-this is now broken.
>
> > When upgrading to rails 2.2.2 all this is broken.
>
> In what way is it broken ? What happens ?
>
> Fred
>
> > What changed?
>
> > I only changed the enviroment.rb to rails 2.2.2 and did rake
> > rails:upgrade
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Error:
You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.name

the view
  <%= link_to course.semester.name, :controller =>
''reporting'', :action => ''new'', :id =>
course.id %>

the database:
courses
---------------
name
semester_id

semesters
----------------
name
education_id

educations
------------------
name
On Mar 6, 11:35 am, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Mar 6, 9:35 am,
"gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org"
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> > In my old app (rails 1.2.6) I was able to access variables via
>
> > controller
> > @courses = Course.find(:all)
>
> > view file:
> > <% for course in @courses %>
> > <%= course.name %> <- this line works
> > <%= course.semester.name %> <- this is now broke
> > <%= course.semester.education.name %> <-this is now broken.
>
> > When upgrading to rails 2.2.2 all this is broken.
>
> In what way is it broken ? What happens ?
>
> Fred
>
> > What changed?
>
> > I only changed the enviroment.rb to rails 2.2.2 and did rake
> > rails:upgrade
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in that view, does
  <%= course.class %>
  <%= course.semester_id %>
give you something like this
  Course
  32

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jep, you are 100% correct.

On Mar 6, 1:47 pm, MaD
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wrote:
> in that view, does
>   <%= course.class %>
>   <%= course.semester_id %>
> give you something like this
>   Course
>   32
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And is there a semester with that id ?

Fred

On Mar 6, 12:53 pm, gundestrup
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> jep, you are 100% correct.
>
> On Mar 6, 1:47 pm, MaD
<mayer.domi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > in that view, does
> >   <%= course.class %>
> >   <%= course.semester_id %>
> > give you something like this
> >   Course
> >   32
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This is so embarrising.
No, when doing rake up and down, all of my fixtures files are
interpeted differently.
so now I have to specify the id column, it''s not just a normal
incriment column, when migrating :-(

Sorry for all the fuss, I just completely missed this.

On Mar 6, 3:28 pm, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> And is there a semester with that id ?
>
> Fred
>
> On Mar 6, 12:53 pm, gundestrup
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > jep, you are 100% correct.
>
> > On Mar 6, 1:47 pm, MaD
<mayer.domi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > in that view, does
> > >   <%= course.class %>
> > >   <%= course.semester_id %>
> > > give you something like this
> > >   Course
> > >   32
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On Mar 6, 2:39 pm, gundestrup
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> This is so embarrising.
> No, when doing rake up and down, all of my fixtures files are
> interpeted differently.
> so now I have to specify the id column, it''s not just a normal
> incriment column, when migrating :-(
>
That is a rails 2.something differnce: if the id column is not
specified it is autogenerated according to some deterministic method.
THis is part of something called "foxy fixtures". What it boils down
to is that you used to have to have stuff like


bobs_order:
  user_id: 4

in orders.yml

and
bob:
   id: 4
   name: bob
in users.yml.

since this change you can have

bobs_order:
  user: bob

and
bob:
  name: bob

Because rails knows what id bob will be assigned it can wire things up
and you end up with neater fixture files without a million hardcoded
ids.

Fred
> Sorry for all the fuss, I just completely missed this.
>
> On Mar 6, 3:28 pm, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> > And is there a semester with that id ?
>
> > Fred
>
> > On Mar 6, 12:53 pm, gundestrup
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > jep, you are 100% correct.
>
> > > On Mar 6, 1:47 pm, MaD
<mayer.domi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > > in that view, does
> > > >   <%= course.class %>
> > > >   <%= course.semester_id %>
> > > > give you something like this
> > > >   Course
> > > >   32
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jep, I fixed the problem, by manually editing my .yml file...

I am so sorry for not realising the stupid simple issue.
It would be nice if there was a way to avoid editing every line on
your yaml file :-(
Some kind of switch.
But I can''t find one.

Thanx for all of your patient help.

And have a wonderfull weekend.

regards
svend


On Mar 6, 9:44 pm, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2:39 pm, gundestrup
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> This is so
embarrising.
> > No, when doing rake up and down, all of my fixtures files are
> > interpeted differently.
> > so now I have to specify the id column, it''s not just a
normal
> > incriment column, when migrating :-(
>
> That is a rails 2.something differnce: if the id column is not
> specified it is autogenerated according to some deterministic method.
> THis is part of something called "foxy fixtures". What it boils
down
> to is that you used to have to have stuff like
>
> bobs_order:
>   user_id: 4
>
> in orders.yml
>
> and
> bob:
>    id: 4
>    name: bob
> in users.yml.
>
> since this change you can have
>
> bobs_order:
>   user: bob
>
> and
> bob:
>   name: bob
>
> Because rails knows what id bob will be assigned it can wire things up
> and you end up with neater fixture files without a million hardcoded
> ids.
>
> Fred
>
> > Sorry for all the fuss, I just completely missed this.
>
> > On Mar 6, 3:28 pm, Frederick Cheung
<frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> > wrote:
>
> > > And is there a semester with that id ?
>
> > > Fred
>
> > > On Mar 6, 12:53 pm, gundestrup
<gundest...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > > jep, you are 100% correct.
>
> > > > On Mar 6, 1:47 pm, MaD
<mayer.domi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > > > > in that view, does
> > > > >   <%= course.class %>
> > > > >   <%= course.semester_id %>
> > > > > give you something like this
> > > > >   Course
> > > > >   32
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