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Hi I have a has_many :through. It''s a basic mapping of Project id .... User id .... TeamMembers project_id user_id role What I would like to do is have different roles so I can have in the project model has_many :core_members, :through => :team_members, :source => :user but I would like to limit this to only those with the "core" role in the team members table for

I''m trying to use has_many :through, since my join model deserves being more than just an intersection table. But when I try to break the association, the break only seems "temporary": Let''s say my two tables are Users and Colors, and the join model is Favorites. user = Users.find(1) user.colors.length >> 2 c = user.colors.first >> #<Color:....>

I just took my HABTM and turned it into a :through since my join table has another "non-joiny" attribute. I went from this: has_many_and_belongs_to :jobs, :join_table => ''tablename'', :foreign_key => ''x'', :association_foreign_key => ''y'' to this: has_many :jobs, :through =>

Hello, I would like to add functionality to the String class....where do I do this? Do I create a new model (if so, what do I call it?) and put something like: class String def my_new_string_method blah blah end end Thanks for any pointers. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have this code that is using svn externals with rails EDGE working fine for the past couple of months. A couple of days ago, this code died. Even after deleting vendor/rails, this code doesnt work: class Tag < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :taggings has_many :events, :through => :taggings has_many :users, :through => :taggings end class User < ActiveRecord::Base # Virtual

Hello! I have a legacy DB and want to use ActiveRecord for it. However, I can''t set up a relation correctly. Here''s table spec: [products] id name price [subproducts] product_id subproduct_id Some example data: [products] 1, "Computer", 500.00 2, "Monitor", 200.00 3, "Printer", 100.00 4, "System", 700.00 5, "System2",

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

It seems that using a join model that joins with two has_many''s will fail to generate proper SQL class StudentSemesterRecord < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :semester has_many :discipline_records, :through => :semester end class Semester < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :student_semester_records has_many :discipline_records end class DisciplineRecord <

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

All, I''m building model objects for existing tables that I cannot modify. In AWDWR, Dave says "Note that our join table has no id column...The second reason for not including an id column in the join table is that AR automatically includes all columns from the join tables when accessing rows using it. If the join table included a column called id, its id would overwrite the id

Hi there I need to store additional attributes on join table. Searching the Wiki [1] revealed two possible methods: 1) push_with_attributes, as described by Justin Palmer [2]. Unfortunately, "this method is now deprecated" [3]. Even if it wasn''t, there seem to be inherent problems with that approach, for example with updating those additional attributes, though Joshua Muheim

Hello, I have the usual Categories and Products table scenario, mediated by a Categories_Products join table. When I create a new Product and into a given Category, I notice that my join table is not being populated. Shouldn''t the join Categories_Products table be populated? Thanks, gk -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''d like to use :through to create a web of associations like: class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :child_things, :through => :thing_thing has_many :parent_things, :through => :thing_thing, :some_other_option? end class ThingThing < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :thing belongs_to :child_thing, :class_name => ''Thing'', :foreign_key =>

Hi, Four tables: users, user_counties, uk_counties and us_counties. Each user has many counties, and each county has many users, so I decided to make user_counties a polymorph, so it can have counties from different countries (each country requires a completely different set of tables with a completely different set of properties, that''s why there''s one table for uk_counties and

Hi, How do I associate two different tables which have a lookup id (table) as common. I tried the has_many :table2, :through => look_up_table in my table1 model. Any hints? Thanks, Hari -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi folks, I am in the process of converting an existing non-rails application to rails, and am not sure what the best approach would be for specifying the relationship between the two sets of data. I''ll describe the existing table structures first. Table 1: Urls Each url has a unique id and two lists of Phrases, these are currently setup as varchars with "," delimitation -

I''m working on a simple photo gallery in rails, it seems to be a good project for a newbie. I have photos and categories, many-to-many association. It worked well with HABTM. Then I decided that it would be good to be able to change order of the photos so that thumbnail pages would look less chaotic. So I created a Layout model which is a join model (or whatever it is called) that

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''ve got two tables set up - Things and Users where Users have many things and Things belongs to Users. They''re connected by Things.user_id => User.id and Things.updated_by_id => User.id both in the Things model using Belongs_to and custom foreign key for one of them. Problem is when I''ve got the updated_by_id belongs_to I can''t add Things using

Im making forum and i have problem with paths. Here is code: http://pastie.caboo.se/6389 With this code, it works. But its a bit weird to use so many paths function. For every path i need to make new function. So can you suggest me something. Tables are like here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/ForumExample -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.