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Suppose I have one table: states id statename And I have two other tables that contains states: houses id color state_id places id place_name state_id How would my model relationships look like? class State < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to house belongs_to place end class House < ActiveRecord::Base has_one state end class Place <

I know you get a lot of questions like this, but I couldn''t find one which answers exactly what I''m after. I''m reasonably new to rails, and I''m having a bit of trouble with when to use belongs_to. On the rails wiki ( http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/belongs_to), it says "In general, the Foo model belongs_to :bar if the foo table has a bar_id foreign

I am very new to Rails. After skimming through the documentation over the last several days, I''m struggling with the appropriate use of belongs_to. My main question is whether a model can have several belongs_to declarations. I have not seen any examples online show that usage. If it can, then I would like to know if it''s poor form or what the best practices are around

Let''s say I have a catalog with hotels. Each hotel belongs to a category (4-star, 5-star etc.) This is it''s official category.However, there is also a category that users assign and a category that "independent reviewers" assign. So I have this: hotels { id, category_id, reviewer_category, user_category } categories { id, name } class Hotel <

I have the following models: class Card < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :deck belongs_to :front, :polymorphic => true belongs_to :back, :polymorphic => true end class TextContent < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :card, :as => :front has_one :card, :as => :back end The conflicting has_one declarations don''t work. What I need is

Getting this error: SyntaxError in CompanyController#positionslist (eval):1:in `compute_type'': compile error (eval):1: parse error, unexpected tINTEGER Object::2 I could not find anything out about it (googling) and it''s not the clearest error message. Not sure if it''s related to an expected data type but that wouldn''t make sense. The only other thing I can

I''m just getting into RoR, coming from a long PHP background. So far I LOVE IT! I''m hitting a roadblock with updating my mysql database. For simplicities sake, I have 2 tables and here are the relevant columns. Table Users id name email Table Issues id createdby assignedto reportedby In my models I have everything mapped properly I believe. When I try to update the

belongs_to :through Why is that not possible? We should have: Street belongs_to :city belongs_to :country, :through => :city -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''ve got two tables set up - Things and Users where Users have many things and Things belongs to Users. They''re connected by Things.user_id => User.id and Things.updated_by_id => User.id both in the Things model using Belongs_to and custom foreign key for one of them. Problem is when I''ve got the updated_by_id belongs_to I can''t add Things using

This has me scratching my head: a Person has many Things a Person has many Collections a Collection has many Things ...Things in a Collection are ordered ...Things in a Collection can be related to (created by) any User ...a collection has additional attributes, such as a name etc I am confused about habtm in rails (especially when using acts_as_habtm_list) vs. going the :through route.

Hi All, Probably this has been asked numerous times, I apologize already! Can somebody point me to a good tutorial on how Rails works with relations? I know about database design and normalization, I also know about programming in general (and OOP for that matter). Only thing I can say is that I''m following the "Four days on Rails" tutorial by John McCreesh. He writes

Hi, I am working on a scheduling app and I have a perpelextion (new word). I am wondering if the problem is my data model I have Users. Users can create Events. Users can be invited to Events created by other Users. So... user.rb class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :invitations # invitations to other users'' events has_many :events, :through => :invitations # all events

Suppose I have a belongs_to relationship and the thing it belongs to, belongs in turn to something else. For example, I would like to do: belongs_to :city belongs_to: :county, :through => :city While it is not too much trouble to do obj.city.county, there are times when I need to iterate through the attributes and include this second-order attribute. Special code to handle this messes up

I have 3 tables keywords (keywords attached to a file) files (info about the file) paths (path for the file) [This is a legacy database, so I can''t change this] keyword belongs_to file and file belongs_to path. Users need to be able to search the keywords, but they only have access to certain volumes, so the results need to be limited by the path. I also need to show paging,

Hi. I''ve tried to redefine the method belongs_to in ActiveRecord::Base, so every time a model is defined as belonging to :attachment, it should have some additional methods. I tried to do an alias of belongs_to, but this was not successful. The error message in Webrick was > Booting WEBrick... ./script/../config/../lib/ActiveRecordExtensions.rb:67: undefined method

Every once in a while, I pipe up and whine that "belongs_to" should really be ''refers_to" [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2130]. It''s time again. I''ve got a bunch of stuff going onto eBay, so, like any good engineer, I don''t just post it manually: I design a Rails-based inventory database that creates a semantically-correct XHTML/CSS auction

There really doesn''t seem to be a *declarative* way to define a default value for belongs_to and has_one associations class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :address end p = Person.new p.address.city = ''Atlantis'' # Bummer! Of course, there''s an easy way to avoid this class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :address

This works : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category end But (when I add validation) this does not work : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category validates_length_of :category, :within => 6..20 validates_uniqueness_of :category, :message => "already exists" end thank you -- View this message in context:

While I''m happy to continue talking about the vagaries of Rails deployments, I also need to actually build apps. :) I may have discovered a bit of a problem with :include as it applies to has_one associations. First, let me say that I''m a big fan of :include for reducing the number of SQL calls. There are times when I wish it could go more than 1 step away from the parent

I have two models called entity and user. The entities table has a column called users_id that contains the user id of the user that created the entity. In entity I have... has_one :user ... as I want to be able to show the user who created the entity from the entity object. But this produces the following error... Mysql::Error: #42S22Unknown column ''users.entity_id'' in