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I have a table called Post (not the actual name) where users input various piece of information, Most of the input is done by dynamic select''s (drop downs). As an example: User would choose Field: Input: Values that go into Post table Category Full Time 2 Length 45 Days 4 State

Suppose I have one table: states id statename And I have two other tables that contains states: houses id color state_id places id place_name state_id How would my model relationships look like? class State < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to house belongs_to place end class House < ActiveRecord::Base has_one state end class Place <

Can someone clarify this for me? Suppose I have two tables like: class Company < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category end class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :companies end I understand that the belongs_to causes related companies to be read from the db when I ask for a category. I suspect SQL something like select * from categories, companies where category.id

I have the following tables setup: locations :id :name systemmessages :id :name systemmessage_validtimes :id :name :systemmessage_id :location_id :start :end The systemmessage_validtimes has a ''has_many'' relationship with systemmessages, meaning that there could be many valid times for each system message. @systemMessage = Systemmessage.find(1) E.g. I

I''m completely new to Ruby and Rails and could use some help resolving an issue. I have a list method that is supposed to show the titles and states(status) of requests, but I get an error from this piece of code: <td><%= change.states.state %></td> The error is: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:100:in

Hi friends! I''m relatively new with Rails and I''m struggling for a long time with this problem (it should have a pattern solution but until now I didn''t find it): I have the following models: Institution, City, State and Country. class Country < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :states has_many :cities, :through => :states end # == Schema Information # Table

I''ve got a model, "category" and another model "subcategory." Each subcategory belongs_to a category, and a category has_many subcategories. What I need to do is set it up so that I can search Category and Subcategory with one .find call. So: Category.find(:all, <etc) will find categories and subcategories. Now, I believe this can be done by making

I have the following models: class Resume belongs_to :resume_assignments end class User belongs_to :resume_assignments end class ResumeAssignment has_one :resume has_one :user end When I delete a resume, I want to make sure that its associated ResumeAssignment gets deleted also. Calling destroy_all to delete some resumes doesn''t seem to do this. Is there an option that will

Hi I?m trying to bring across all related data. My table clients has a foreign key field that stores the id of an organization How can I grab the details of the organization to use in the clients show.rhtml file? Thanks Scott -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m having a bit of trouble with my first Rails app. ---- I have two tables: create_table :items do |t| t.column :created_at, :timestamp t.column :user_id, :int t.column :text, :text end create_table :users do |t| t.column :user_id, :int t.column :name, :string end ---- I''m trying to use the "user_id" field to link both tables, with each user

belongs_to :through Why is that not possible? We should have: Street belongs_to :city belongs_to :country, :through => :city -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :venue belongs_to :category end class Venue < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :city end class City < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :state end I want to retrieve all event records belonging to a state. Coming from hibernate background I tried something like this: def self.list_for_a_state(state_id) find_by_sql(["select e.*

I am implemented a simple project management application. Each project has various events, and each event can be a different type. Some event information is common, such as name, start date, close date, and comments. I have a projects table which has_many events. My plan is to have several sub-event tables, like event_get_access which will contain an event_id field to link it to table events as

This is a real newbie question with what i''m sure will be a simple answer... If i add a column a table (in a development application), how do i update my models to reflect this change? Cheers, Steve

Howdy, I''m a Rails beginner working on my first significant project with RoR. I''m trying to figure out how to validate a foreign key (you know, make sure the row actually exists.) However, validates_associated doesn''t seem to be what I want to use, nor does it work... -- BEGIN -- class City < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :schools belongs_to :state

Hello, Let''s say I have a model for a "house". Each house has_a "city", which in turn has_a "state" which in turn has_a "country". The objective is to retrieve all houses in a given state, say "Massachusetts". Being new to Ruby on Rails what I like is that things that should be simple usually are simple, and since we have easy access to

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

Hello, Can someone kindly tell what the heck creating a relationship does in active record? I understand the idea of joining the tables and such. But how do I use it? Is it available in a scaffold? How about when I want to view a record and want to see all the joined data from the other table? Do I have to manually code the data I want from the other table? Does this automatically make the

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''ve tried tackling this many ways on my own and can''t find a good solution: Breaking it down to something simplier... Venue has one address Person has one address Address belongs to state Assuming I don''t want to do tables for venue_addresses and person_addresses. What is the best way to model this using rails... big thing here is i want to be able to reuse a