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...;'pgm_update_fk'' ... and class PgmVisit < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :pgm_update, :foreign_key => ''pgm_update_fk'', :dependent => true ... According to the has_many docs (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html#M000471) collection<<(object, ?) - adds one or more objects to the collection by setting their foreign keys to the collection?s primary key. But when I add a new, unsaved PgmVisit to an unsaved PgmUpdate the PgmVisit still has a nil foreign key and no pgm_update to show for. Are the docs faili...

I am applying Rails to an existing schema and not sure how much the existing developers will let me go in and rename things. So I need to discover the limits of what I can change with Rails. I''ve found set_table_name and set_primary_key, which have been very useful. If I have a "foo has_one :bar" relationship, but then in the bar table my column is named "fooid"

say I have the following: # user table # - id # - username # - password class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :items end # item table # - id # - user_id # - name class Item < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end What is the correct way for creating a new item instance with relationships in place (assuming the current user is available in the current_user instance)? Do you

Hi, Something that I have noticed is that every class that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base has a database table of its own. However what if I don''t want a class to have its own table, but to actually serve as a proxy to initialize other entries? For instance as an example, let''s have a form with the fields for "student name", "student id number",

Hello, I am new here and actually I am writing my first RoR app. My question is: -------- class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :messages end class Message < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :topic end class ForumController < ApplicationController def post message = Message.new(params[:message]) @topic = Topic.find(params[:id]) @topic.messages