similar to: No-brainer HABTM vs. select input question

Hi, I am trying to perform a query with ActiveRecord that I want to put into a Rails application later. For now I just wrote it within a plain old Ruby script for easier testing. I am working with an existing database so I had to map some foreign keys myself. As you can see from the models below, the database has a structure of Prospectlists <=habtm=> Contacts <=habtm=> Accounts

Hi, Posting here since issue tracking isn''t the best place to discuss. I can understand habtm is moving towards deprecating support for extra attributes in join_table, and to use :through for those cases instead. To clarify, patch<http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/5216/habtm_join_table_test.patch1.diff>for #5216 <http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5216>

I need to have a table related to itself via a join table. Will HABTM support this? That is: class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :recipes, :join_table => "recipes_recipes" end More importantly -- how does RoR support MULTIPLE self-joins? I.e., to relate the table to itself via multiple join tables. SFAIK, HABTM won''t support multiple

Hello list, I think I''ve found a bug in the way Rails is talking to my Postgres DB when recording HABTM data. My join_table looks like this: id serial primary key, tablea_id integer references tablea(id), tableb_id integer references tableb(id), other_attributes... When Rails writes to join_table, I''d expect it to do something like: INSERT INTO join_table (tablea_id,

Imagine I want to track people, and the clubs that they belong to. table people with columns person_id, person_name table clubs with columns club_id, club_name And I have the association table: table clubs_people with columns person_id, club_id Now I know how to do this habtm between the two, in order to associate people with clubs that they belong to. However my application also needs a

Here''s a simplistic model class. class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :relatives, :class_name => ''Person'', :join_table => ''relatives'', :foreign_key => ''from_id'', :association_foreign_key => ''to_id'' has_and_belongs_to_many :brothers, :class_name =>

Hi, I''m having a little trouble figuring out how to make a self- referential HABTM bi-directional. I have a Employee class. Each employee can have a couple of bosses, who are also employees. The employee class has the following HABTM: has_and_belongs_to_many :bosses, :class_name => "Employee", :join_table => "bosses_courses", :association_foreign_key =>

Hi all I have members in my application, and every member can assign other members as buddies. class Member < ActiveRecord::Base # Hat folgende Buddies has_and_belongs_to_many :buddies, :class_name => ''Member'', :join_table => ''members_have_buddies'',

Cheers, I have a problem with 1.0 and a habtm relationship between User and Article. I want to save all articles that users read. I have these models: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :read_articles, :class_name => "Article", :join_table => "read_articles" ... end class Article < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :readers,

Hi all, I''m working with a legacy sqlserver db and I''m trying to override the insert sql in as defined in the HABTM method below(becasue the join has three primary keys), but I''m getting the error: ''undefined local variable or method `record'' for Project:Class'' has_and_belongs_to_many :people, :class => ''Person'',

as i''ve read somewhere. this could be fixed easily. all the rails devs ( or whoever is responsible for the query building and executing part) have to do is to use the full qualifier in the sql statements (e. g. DB_Name.Tablename.Row). to solve that problem in the meanwhile one should define the :join_table in the habtm association with the full qualifier. -- Posted via

Briefly, I want to create an :insert_sql attribute for a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship, and then add items to that relationship using push_with_attributes. Is that possible? Less briefly: I have a legacy postgresql database where one of the join tables has an ID column, so I had to set up the association with a custom :finder_sql attribute, as follows: class Topic <

Chris, Finally got time to fully play with your suggestions. Had to re-code a bit of stuff but the concept works - just like a bought one :~). Many thanks for the solution, Kind Regards, Eric. For those curious - here''s what it was about; On Monday 02 January 2006 02:10, Eric Sloane tried to type something like: > Hi, > I''m trying to figure the most efficient way to

With the help of the Rails Recipes have got a self-referential HABTM relationship working, but I''m really struggling with getting a new entry from a form accepted. i should say here that the form is also submitting info for the join table too. So in my model I have: class Type < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :subtypes, :class_name => ''Type'',

Hi all I have the following models: class Member < ActiveRecord::Base # DJ Profiles the member is part of has_and_belongs_to_many :disc_jockeys, :join_table => ''members_are_disc_jockeys'', :uniq => true end class DiscJockey < ActiveRecord::Base # Members that are part of this DJ profile

I have a problem declaring a relationship through a join_table ; the SQL generated by ActiveRecord is correct, but there are two columns called ''id'', and the final object gets the ''wrong'' column ... Here''s a more detailed description of the data, code, and problem :- There''s a People table, with id, name, and a few things. Also a

I''m building an app that needs i18n support across the entire database (i.e. localized attributes). In order to do this I''ve created a special HABTM join table that can be associated with _any_ other table: create table language_strings ( for_table varchar(255) not null, foreign_id int not null, language_id varchar(5) not null, attr_name varchar(255) not null, value text

Hello all This is my first post so excuse the basic question. (and any repeats I just got an email saying this post was too big so I have re-submitted a smaller version) I was following the thread on http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/038988.html regarding the STI on HABTM for RoR. I have a very similar problem and was hoping for some help. I have the

Ok, David says on page 241 that sometimes a many-to-many relation with attributes are better implemented as an actual model instead of using HABTM. Well, I''ve got that situation and I can''t figure it out. All of the examples in the book have HABTM examples between 2 different tables, but I want to have a HABTM relation on 1 table with itself. (e.g., if I have a table Things,

So having just learned how to do has_many :through as opposed to HABTM, and then, being concerned that I wouldn''t get it to work, I started thinking about these two approaches. It seems to me that the _only_ problem that the HM:T (has_many :through) approach solves that HABTM doesn''t is the issue of the potential collision of id columns between your join table and one of