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Hi there, I try to develop a medical application using ruby on rails. There are many categories which can contain subcategories. I defined the model like this: class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :notes belongs_to :parent_category, :class_name=>"Category", :foreign_key=>"category_id" has_many :sub_categories,

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 a model (accessed restfully) named TranscoderQueue, it''s name is overridden to ''TransocderQueue'' so it is accessed as ''/ transocder_queue'' as opposed to ''/transocder_qeueus''. class TranscoderQueue < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :campaign, :class_name => "Campaign", :foreign_key => "campaign_id"

Hi , I want to test the one below but I got the problem belongs_to :name, :class_name => "Phrase", :foreign_key => "name" in my test context "test"do should have_many :phrases end in language.rb belongs_to :name, :class_name => "Phrase", :foreign_key => "name" error is 1) Failure: test: check has_many and belongs_to

Hi all, I''m confused about how I''m supposed to specify a belongs_to relationship when the table includes multiple columns that reference the same parent table. In my case I have a "schedules" table with "opened_by" and "closed_by" columns, that both reference the "users" table. In theory, they can be two different user ids. table

I am trying to create a messaging system for my users but I''m having a hard time designing my db. This is what i have in mind, but I am not sure if its the best approach. user has_one inbox user has_one outbox inbox has_many messages outbox has_many messages inbox table user_id outbox table user_id messages table box_id (refers to either inbox or outbox - how?) from_id to_id

I am working on an Rails application that uses a pretty complex category structure through out the site. I have defined a table to house all the info and a FK to reference parents within the table CREATE TABLE categories ( id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(50) NOT NULL, parent_id int(11) default NULL, constraint fk_category_id foreign key (category_id) references

If I have a class, Asset, which has and belongs to many associated Asset objects, how do I do this? has_and_belongs_to_many :associated_assets, :class => "Asset", :foreign_key => ?????, :association_foreign_key => ????? Right now, my table has a :first_asset_id and a :second_asset_id, but I don''t see how the objects themselves are supposed to distinguish one from the

I would like to have a customer that has references to two addresses, a billing address and a shipping address. In a non-rails environment I would have two keys in the customers table, billing_address_id and shipping_address_id to reference the addresses. It appears that ActiveRecord expects the parent id to reside in the child table, regardless of whether the relationship is one-to-one or

Hello! I have 2 table: users and buddies User: id, name, ... Buddy: id, user_id, user_buddy_id, ... So if you have 2 users 1,jack and 2,fred and fred is a buddy of jack, there is a Buddy object: id=1, user_id=1, user_buddy_id=2 I can declare only one belongs_to in Buddy and one has_many in User. And there is conflict if I had the second one (the first one is discarded) class User has_many

Hi Everyone, I hope I get some feedback on my question. Here it goes. I have a situation here, I have a company table and then using Single Table inheritance it is of 3 types: class Company < ActiveRecord::Base end class Vendor < Company end class Customer < Company end class Agent < Company end Now I have a active record Association class QuoteSheet < ActiveRecord::Base

I know this has been rehashed many times, but I don''t get it. I can''t find it documented to were I understand all the parts. I can make this work using Rails database design conventions, but in this case I am not able to do that. I find examples, but the ones I find do not follow the conventions. They also do not give enough information to understand what is going on. In

Hi I''m pretty much a newbie to Rails and I have at least two projects under development that are going to need the same type of constructs and I''m struggling to get my head around how to achieve what I want using Rails models and relationships. In one project I have a hierarchy of (geographical) sites. For example: Earth Europe Ireland Cork Kerry Galway

DB field names: If I have a table that references 2 or more separate users from my users table, is there a recommended naming convention for this situation? In my case, I have 3 users associated with a record in my projects table: requester_user_id created_by updated_by I could name one of them "user_id", and then projects.user would work I guess, but wouldn''t work

I have more or less the same problem. I''m trying to build a system where users can enter their friends. But the solutions seems not to work for me. I used same sql: CREATE TABLE `friends` ( `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default ''0'', `friend_id` int(11) NOT NULL default ''0'', KEY `user_id` (`user_id`), KEY `friend_id` (`friend_id`),

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 =>

Doesn''t appear to work with WEBrick. Works find with Apache/FastCGI. Something wrong in the way Rails is trying to process paths from the WEBrick server. If I try to send in http://localhost:3000/recipes/new, WEBrick is interpreting /new as my controller, instead of my action.

Okay folks, I''m feeling like a fool. I''m sure I''m not the first person to run into this, but I can''t find the necessary info. Basically I need to create two tables. The first to hold actual content. And the second to link pairs of content records. For example, a "persons" table and a "friends" table that pairs up two person records.

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 =>

I am having a problem with doing a :through that goes back to the same table. The following are my two classes: >>>>> class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :spanks has_many :spanked, :through => :spanks, :source => :spanked_user has_many :was_spanked_by, :through => :spanks, :source => :user end class Spank < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :spanker,