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2006 Jan 20
4
[newbie]how to use link_to to link to another controller?
...a bit puzzled by the link_to function.
am writing an app to display my photographs in categories. My application layout
has a sidebar to show a menu with categories from the categories table in the
database (like in taken from the tutorials), to be shown on every page.
I managed to get a global @menu_categories object that keeps track of all the
categories that should pop up in the menu using in the application controller
def initialize
@menu_categories=Category.find_all
end
Now, if I iterate over these menu categories in the application template
<% for menu_category in @menu_categories %>
<%...
2006 Jul 07
9
Search on data accross many tables, linked by belongs_to
I am using Ferret and acts_as_ferret, as my search back-end for my Rails
project. I have a question about using acts_as_ferret on a main table
that is linked to other tables by foreign keys. Is there a way to
include the information linked by the belongs_to keyword in the search
results ?
As an example, let''s say I have a main table ''posts'':