similar to: Specify and validate requirements on an ActiveRecord association

Hi, I have a situation I''m hoping someone out there may be able to shed some light on. I have a Rails app (2.1.0 on Ruby 1.8.7) with a wizard-based sign up process, that has recently been changed from storing incremental data in the database to having a medium sized object graph living in the user session until the user completes the entire sign up process (this is a business

I have a service method that takes a PaymentMethod which can either be a CreditCard or a PayPal account. When I request the service and pass one or the other it always comes over as a PaymentMethod; the service doesn''t seem to know that the parameter is really a CreditCard or PayPal. Here''s some sample code that illustrates what I''m talking about more concretely:

In my application a user working at a dropzone can manipulate transactions against customer accounts. Here''s my models: class Transaction < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :account end class Account < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :dropzone has_many :transactions end class Dropzone < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :transactions, :through => :accounts do def

I want to find out what are the associations with another active record class. So If my class is as below: Class Component < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :branches end class Branch < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :component end and then I do Component.reflections[:branches].active_record I would expect that to be Branch but it is in fact Component. The inspection of

I wonder if you can have more than one has_many :through association between 2 models. For example... I have a model Teacher and a model Class Now, 1 Teacher works in many Classes, right?. So I need a join model like class Work < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :teacher belongs_to :class end But I also would like to know if a teacher CAN teach a class before I

So I''m one of those nasty people building a self-referential habtm-like Association using the funky new :through stuff. This is about users having friends, so here''s my user.rb: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :friendships, :foreign_key => ''user_id'' has_many :friends, :through => :friendships, :source => :friend end And here''s

I''d like to be able to use a has_many :through association and treat the associations as a list but I''m getting this error when I try an use an acts_as_list method: NoMethodError: undefined method `move_to_bottom'' I''m using edge rails r6786. Here are my domain rules: Activities are things students can do. Units consists of a sequenced list of

Hi, I am trying to find a way tp update attributes in a habtm association. I am trying to use the code from ticket #2462, but as my association_class_primary_key_name seems to be empty the generated sql code is corrupt. I hope thats not a problem of my model that this variable is empty. What would you recommend to update those attributes (rails 1.1) THANKS!!! -- Posted via

Can someone please confirm or correct the following statements? If I have the following tables create table as (id int, [...], b_id int); create table bs (id int, [...], a_id int); create table as_bs (a_id int, b_id int); and the associations woould be defined like this class A << ... habtm :bs belongs_to :b end so my Model A has a habtm collection of Bs *plus* a direct

So, I''ve written a partial that does some stuff with a given instance of my class "entity". Entity is ActiveRecord. I''m able to retrieve all sorts of data from an @entity, until I do something like: <% for @attribute in @entity.attributes %> <div id="attribute_<%= @attribute.id %>"> <%= render(:partial =>

Hi, I am trying to overwrite the accessor of a has_many association. Basically my class looks like this: class Person has_many :emails has_one :link, :class_name => ''PersonProxy'' def emails_with_link link.emails + emails_without_link end alias_method_chain :emails, :link end Now that works fine if I only access the collection like >>

I want to be able to do something like this (for example): class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :friends def friends(living_in = :uk) # filter based on parameters here end end Is there any way I can redefine the accessor for an association whilst still being able to get the values? Basically, I''m looking for an equivilent of read_attribute() for associations. --

A concrete example: We''re building a system to organize the information about workshops being held in various conventions. A convention has more than one workshop, and each workshop can be held in more than one convention. Also each workshop has a host, who is specific to a workshop being held in a specific convention. For example, Matz may host an "Introduction to Ruby"

I have two models, Donor and Contribution, and have has_many and belongs_to set respectively. My question is regarding creation of associated objects. I''ll let the code speak: me = Donor.find(1) contribution = me.contributions.create do |e| e.amount = 164.00 e.category = Category.find(1) end I thought this was valid, but it doesn''t work properly - it appears to

Hi all. Got a stupid-simple question about associations. I have two models - school and course. There are a fixed number of schools (set up in the migration). Each course is assigned a school and a school will be associated with multiple courses... How do I set up the associations? Do (can) I have School :has_one :course and Course :has_many :schools? Does the schools table then get a course_id

Considering an object with several has_many :through => associations, what is the ''best'' way to handle validations? As an example: class Student < ActiveRecord::Base # some attrbutes like # :name # :grade # relationships has_many :students_assignment, :dependent => :destroy has_many :assignments, :through => :students_assignment has_many

I''m creating a simple portfolio site for a painter. I have a painting and an image model with following relationship: Painting has_many :images Image belongs_to :painting On the edit screen the user can edit the Painting data as well as upload pictures for a thumbnails and full size image. The Image model extracts filename, width, and height from the uploaded file, saves those

I posted something about this a week ago wihtout response, but have made some progress since. However, I''m still not getting exactly what I want. OK, three core tables: create_table :reference_items do |t| t.column :title, :string, :limit => 255 t.column :year, :integer, :limit => 4 t.column :type, :string t.column

Hi there- I''m a newbie to this board, RoR, and web development in general. So please forgive me if this is in the wrong place or if the solution is really simple... I''m trying to conceptualize the relationships between a series of models for a page creation function. What I''d like is to have a Content Page which consists of a series of Content Blocks. The Content

Ok, I followed the advice of the list and moved more code into my model from my controller. When developing tests for this new code, I ran into a problem... My model code creates a receipt object and sets some values on it: @receipt = Receipt.new do |r| r.x = 1 r.y = 2 # etc end I wanted to be able to stub out Receipt.new so that I could set expectations on the methods called on the