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I have successfully used HABTM to create a many-to-one-to-many set of rows in one step. Now, if two objects I want to associate already exist, how do I create the join row? The Agile book mentions the ''push_with_attributes'' method. The text says this method is useful for adding additional attributes to the join row (in the example a ''read_at'' timestamp). I

Hello, I have a question about HABTM and counting records. I have these models class Sort < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :reports end class Report < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :region has_and_belongs_to_many :subjects has_and_belongs_to_many :sorts end And i would like to get a count like @sort.reports.count The problem is get this query:

Hi, Posting here since issue tracking isn''t the best place to discuss. I can understand habtm is moving towards deprecating support for extra attributes in join_table, and to use :through for those cases instead. To clarify, patch<http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/5216/habtm_join_table_test.patch1.diff>for #5216 <http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5216>

Hello guys. I was able to figure out that my "stack level too deep" error I was getting with my HABTM destroy method was the result of a bug in rails 1.0. I upgraded to 1.1.2 and now the views and any console-run commands for destroying AR objects linked together via HABTM work just fine. I have HABTM setup between stories and submissions. The issue is that the destroy methods in

With the help of the Rails Recipes have got a self-referential HABTM relationship working, but I''m really struggling with getting a new entry from a form accepted. i should say here that the form is also submitting info for the join table too. So in my model I have: class Type < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :subtypes, :class_name => ''Type'',

Ok, David says on page 241 that sometimes a many-to-many relation with attributes are better implemented as an actual model instead of using HABTM. Well, I''ve got that situation and I can''t figure it out. All of the examples in the book have HABTM examples between 2 different tables, but I want to have a HABTM relation on 1 table with itself. (e.g., if I have a table Things,

Is there a way to update attributes in a HABTM join table? Right now I am deleting the join and then recreating it with new attributes. I have a table "categories" and another table "items". They are both HABTM with the join table "categories_items" between them. If an item is joined to a category once, no problem, we create the join. But if an item is

For a while, I''ve been getting that HMT is replacing HABTM. It appears that HMT can do all of what HABTM can do and more. The question is: Should I stop using HABTM? Let''s take a simple case: A case has many categories For a given category, there are certain valid statuses Category has_and_belongs_to_many :statuses Status has_and_belongs_to_many :categories Question: Is

Hi there, I have a question on what would be the best way to save a HABTM model. A posting habtm categories, and a category habtm postings. class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :postings end class Posting < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :categories end In my blog_controller, where the actual posting is saved, is where I think I''m

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

Hello all This is my first post so excuse the basic question. (and any repeats I just got an email saying this post was too big so I have re-submitted a smaller version) I was following the thread on http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/038988.html regarding the STI on HABTM for RoR. I have a very similar problem and was hoping for some help. I have the

Hi there I have an habtm association between 2 Models. I regularly have to truncate the table on one side of the relationship and repopulate the table with a fresh csv file. I notice that f I do Model.delete_all, none of the records in my habtm join table get deleted, whereas if I use destroy_all they do. However, the overhead of using destroy_all is too great. For the amount of records I have

Pardon my newbness. I''m trying to create, populate, and save an object with an HABTM mapping. That''s not working too well so far ;) Assuming I have the mapping correct (HA!) and the db set up properly, how do I create the select and options? I guess mostly I want to know what I''m supposed to name it. I have a FilingEvent class - HABTM State (both models have the

Heyo! I am setting up a self-referencial habtm relationship with the users of my app. I am using Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" to get me started, and everything works great with the join table "people_friends". I add friends by doing somebody.friends << somebodyelse. However, with my app, there is an approval process so my join table has columns person_id,

Imagine I want to track people, and the clubs that they belong to. table people with columns person_id, person_name table clubs with columns club_id, club_name And I have the association table: table clubs_people with columns person_id, club_id Now I know how to do this habtm between the two, in order to associate people with clubs that they belong to. However my application also needs a

In my mind, it should work like this: <%= select ''item'', ''category_ids'', Category.find(:all).collect {|c| [c.name, c.id] }, {}, {:multiple=>true, :size=>20} %> Then Rails should automatically populate and update HABTM on that. As it is now, the above won''t work (I created a getter in item''s model that returns an array of

I have a habtm that looks like: report has_and_belongs_to_many :subscribers subscriber has_and_belongs_to_many :reports When I add a report to a subscriber, I have to run code like: raise "already there, idiot!" unless report.subscribers.find_by_id(subscriber_id).nil? Is there a better way to avoid adding duplicative associations? has_many :through seems like overkill for this

I''m 100% positive this has come up multiple times before. I just can''t find it for some reason. I''ve got a HABTM relationship, we''ll just say Item HABTM categories. When I edit an Item via a form, I''d like there to be check boxes for all the categories, and they''ll obviously be checked if an Item has a relationship with a particular

Hi all , I have a habtm relation between 2 tables: - users - rights If there a way to affect a destroy dependance on those 2 tables only for the last instance? In my opinion, dependent => :destroy is not the solution because this delete all the linked instance. For example, if I have: # in User model this: - "Joooooo" - "Jeannnn" - "Tommmm" # in Right

1. I have a few tables: ''users'', ''shops'', ''addresses'', and ''pictures''. 2. Users and Shops will both use the addresses and pictures tables. I have created several mapping tables: addresses_shops pictures_shops addresses_users pictures_users 3. Users CAN have many addresses and pictures (simple HABTM), but... 4.