Re: Newbie Model Question

Philip Hallstrom
2009-04-15T18:42:08Z

On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Nicktabs wrote:

>
> I''m building a shop in rails as a learning excercise.
I''ve got to the
> last part when I''m sending out e-mail order confirmations. The
e-mails
> contain a list of each line item the customer ordered, I also want to
> display the catgory name the customer ordered from.
>
> The database is setup: Category > Product > Line_item.
> So I want to navigate back from line_item > product > category so i
> can display the category name in the email however im not sure how I
> tell it to find the category name from the item.
>
> Be greatful for anyhelp.

@line_item.product.category.name

Assuming all the associations are setup correctly.

You can also set it up using :through so that you can just to
@line_item.category.name

-philip

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