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Hello, I''m stuck, I''ve got a model Product and would like to add a new model called Category. Furthermore, I want to set up a many2many relationship between the mentioned models. the problem is that I do not know how to set the primary key in the categories_products table. this is what I''ve got in my migration file: create_table :categories do |t| t.column :name,

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

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

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

Taking time off from programming is always painful :-). I have the following Models: ==== class Tag < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :problems end class Problem < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user has_and_belongs_to_many :tags end ==== And the following migrations: ==== create_table "problems" do |t| t.column "user_id", :integer

Hi, I have three Models: User, Group and File. User habtm groups and Group habtm Files How can I find all files that a particular user has access to? eg user.groups.files ? As user.groups returns an array, the above doesn''t work. Id like to find the files for all groups in that array, without adding any code to the User model. Thanks in advance PS I just posted this in the

Quick question. Say I have a geographical database with counties and zip codes where counties have and belong to many zip codes. zip_codes (id, zip_code) counties (id, name) When I create the association table, the Rails way says to do the following: counties_zip_codes (county_id, zip_code_id). However, given that zip_codes.zip_code is itself a candidate key, I would much prefer to do the

Does the new has_many :through and belongs_to :through obsolete (well, replace and essentially deprecate) has_and_belongs_to_many? Joe -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

All, I''ve heard recently about has_many :through as a necessary alternative to HABTM (when the join table has it''s own id column, say, in a legacy schema). However, is the prevailing Rails wisdom now that one should use has_many :through in _all_ cases? If so, why? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''ve been googling and searching the forums for some time but can''t seem to find exactly what I''m looking for. Suppose User HABTM Products (for example a favorites list). I would like to construct a single query for finding Products ordered by the number of Users that have flagged them as favorites. Although I can construct the query using SQL a with a

I didn''t find exactly an answer on this one, so I''d like to get a clarification from folks who live & breathe HABTM. class foo has_and_belongs_to_many :bars end class bar has_and_belongs_to_many :foos end (and yes, I have a bars_foos table in my db) def test_habtm bar = Bar.new foo = Foo.new foo.bars<<bar assert !foo.bars.empty? assert

All of my HABTM tables receive the parent created_on/last_update_on dates whenever a record is inserted into these join tables. I don''t have any defaults in the database or anything else populating these tables. I assumed rails would populate these automagically. Is there something that needs to be done to get this to populate with the correct current timestamp instead of

Hello List, I''m a bit spent on this problem, and my code might be whack. I seem to be encountering a problem where the primary key on a join table is not being resolved correctly. I will elaborate after some code bits. I am creating the join table using migrations, and relevant model code is this: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :records

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 =>

i have a taskmanager type of project that i am working on, where i need to separate joins on the same two tables. i need one join for users that are assigned to the task, and another join for who has read the task, so they can tell which ones are new. any suggestions on the best way to accomplish this? thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, I''m working on a small Rails site for a game I play that will be used to add new characters. Part of this addition process is choosing what skills the character will have. For this, in MySQL, I have a characters table and a skills table, as well as a characters_skills table that is used as the join table in the habtm relationship between the two. I am presenting the skills in

Class Role has_and_belongs_to_many :users Class User has_and_belongs_to_many :roles Class RolesUsers has_and_belongs_to_many :roles has_and_belongs_to_many :users According to the logs...I''m good through here @roles_users = RolesUsers.find(:all, :conditions => ["user_id = ?", params[:users_id]] ) the next section of controller code is a problem...

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 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

Greetings, I''m trying to convert a HABTM w/attributes join table in my database into a join model table in order to utilize the new has_many :through functionality introduced in Rails 1.1. Here''s the current table definition: licenses_user_groups: license_id, user_group_id, usage_notes Perhaps it was a mistake, but I made (license_id, user_group_id) the primary key. Now,