similar to: how to save objects in a has_many :through association?

I recently converted a habtm relationship into one using has_many :through. Some of my old logic relied on the ability to use the #<< operator to add items to the relationship and get them auto- saved. I''m curious to know the best way to do the same operation with the has_many :through configuration. I looked through the list archives and didn''t find my answer.

Josh Susser tells in his blog that the opposite direction of polymorphic will get into trouble together with has_many through. This is the url: http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/04/03/polymorphic-through I do that according to Josh Susser''s procedure: class Tagging < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :tag belongs_to :taggable, :polymorphic => true belongs_to

I just saw Marcel''s change to assert_difference that changes the method API to take a string param that is evaled in a lambda. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/6693 I much preferred the old API, since it''s simple enough to pass a lambda. Passing a string means the lambda is in the wrong scope and doesn''t have access to objects in the test case scope. For an

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

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:....>

Hi, I am new to ruby on rails. I am building an association join model and encountered the following error. Does anyone know what am I missing? > NameError in StartController#home > >d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:100:in `const_missing'': uninitialized constant Membership I have the following tables relationships Users

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

Hello all. I am trying to create a self-referential has_many :through. I used the following site as a guide http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/04/21/self-referential-through but it still doesn''t appear to be working. I have two models. Person and Relationship. A person has many contacts (Which is another person) through relationships class Person < ActiveRecord::Base

I haven''t seen a note here on the list, so in case anyone doesn''t have their RSS reader glued to the relevant blogs... http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/03/28/rails-1-1-rjs- active-record-respond_to-integration-tests-and-500-other-things Congrats to David and all the core team, and thanks for your dedication and all the work. This release looks really solid and

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

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

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 <

Hi, I have a self-referential has_many :through relationship setup to track relationships between users. Basically relationships are modeled as a join table with an extra column ''relation''. create table relationships ( user_id integer unsigned not null, friend_id integer unsigned not null, relation char(1) not null, ) --- relations --- f = friend r = request to

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

In a partial that renders another partial, I would like to change the items I am rendering based on the content of a variable. So instead of having 5 partials which all have variations on this; <% for @skill in @cv.skills %> <%= render :partial => "skills" %> <% end %> If item = "skill" would like to do something to this effect; <% eval("for

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 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

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 all. I am currently thinking about how to do the following: I have the following models. Team Person Team has various positions (manager, programmer etc.) I would like each one of those positions to reference one or more Person records. A single Person record could be on 6 different teams at the same time in different roles. the same person could even be on the same team multiple times

Hi all, I''ve just been trying out the dirt-simple rcss scheme posted here: http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/03/23/dirt-simple-rcss-templates It looks like the content-type declaration on the line: render :file => file_name, :content_type => ''text/css'' isn''t getting honoured. I had to add a separate: