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It looks rails automatically creates a "finder" method on models that have a "belongs_to". So I tried this in the console: c = Category.find(2) chunks = Chunk.find_by_category(c) chunks is always returned as an empty array. When I know have some chunks with a category_id of 2. Should the find_by_category do what I think it should be doing or am I completely off base?

I have a model, listings. Listings habtm categories and subcategories, which are seperate models. What I want to do is search categories for certain items, like so: @categories = Category.find(:all, :conditions => ["name LIKE ?", "#%{:search_string}%" and subcategories for the same: @subcategories = Subcategory.find(:all, :conditions => ["name LIKE ?",

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

1. A category has parent categories. 2. A product is in many categories and a category has many products. 3. Products and category both have images in the same image table. ie. a product and / or category could have multiple images.<=== my question is related to this So among other things I presume I have to do the following: class Category < ActiveRecord:Base #...

Hi there, I''ve been working on this for awhile and have finally decided to ask for a little guidance.I have a slight problem trying to save a selection. I have two models: A "Posting" has_many "Categories", and a "Category" belongs_to one "Posting". With that said, in the posting model I have "has_many :categories" and within the

Say I have a post model that has_and_belongs_to_many :categories, and a category model that has_and_belongs_to_many :posts. So I have a categories_posts table to do the join. That''s all find and dandy. However I want to be able to find all the posts that belong to a specific category. I tried Post.find_by_category(:id) but that doesn''t work. Does anyone have any insight?

Postgres database. I have a categories table, with two columns id, and name. I have a recipes table, with a category_ids column. I want each recipe to belong to one or more category. in recipe_controller.rb I have this: def create @recipe = Recipe.new( @params[''recipe''] ) @recipe.category_ids = @params[''recipe''][''category_ids''].map{

Hi there, This seems to be obvious but after reading a few times the section in the Agile Wb Dev with Rails I''m still strugling. I have a table with categories names which I want to display in the url instead of their id. So far I managed to get both in the url by adding: map.connect ''/:id/:category/'', :controller => "site", :action =>

I have two tables ("products" and "categories") that have a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship, and I need to be able to arbitrarily sort products in the scope of a category using something like acts_as_list. Problem is, since each product can belong to multiple categories, it doesn''t work to use acts_as_list and have the "position" field be in the

I have an archive that can have 0 or more extra files associated with it. I would like to be able to edit the associated files info on the same page as the archive info. Listing the extra files info to the edit form is simple enough, but How do I form the text input fields for easy (or automatic) pick-up in the update? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here? -- Posted via

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

All, This is more of a theoretical question I suppose - I''m looking for what the consensus is for the "correct" approach in Rails/MVC. I have a standard security model where a User can have many Roles. There is a User model, a Role model, and in the db, a linking table, etc. Each role has a name as well as a category (say, name="waiter", category="restaurant

Ahoy, I was able to follow the tutorials and build a simple to-do list program with Items and Categories and have the related tables link up w/ the default "scaffold :Items" command plus custom defenitions. Then I erased all of that and tried rebuilding the program using the ruby script/generate scaffold Item (and category) command. Now the templates look like " <% for

Let''s say I have a catalog with hotels. Each hotel belongs to a category (4-star, 5-star etc.) This is it''s official category.However, there is also a category that users assign and a category that "independent reviewers" assign. So I have this: hotels { id, category_id, reviewer_category, user_category } categories { id, name } class Hotel <

I''ve got a menu in which I have all of my categories as links. Each category also has subcategories. I want to set it up so when you mouse over the category the subcategories will pop up (to the right of the main list, but that''s just CSS). This is what I have so far: <% for category in @categories %> <a href="#"

I''m building a simple support ticket system for use in our office. I''ve got a model called Ticket and one called Category and I''m trying to set it up so that I can add categories at will and assign many categories to a single ticket. I''m trying to use the has_many :through association to accomplish this, but I''ve run into an issue. Here''s

Hi, I''m starting to build a simple (?!) FAQ system, and I''d like some advice on setting up the model relationships. I was going to go with a simple system of a Category table and a FAQ table (holding questions and answers) - where one FAQ belongs to one category. That''s all nice - a simple has_many / belongs_to relationship. Then I decided to add another level - Area.

I''m trying to wrap my caffeine soaked brain around has_many :through following along at: http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2005/12/23/teaching_your_blog_model_new_tricks_with_has_many_through I think my models are a little more complex than what fits this narrative. I have a directory of members, each member can belong to multiple categories. The category table references itself

i think there ara two ways of relate products and categories , basically i want to fix one product(e.g hp dv7....) to some categories (notebook,17"notebooks...) i made a table named categorization(incuding category_id,product_id fields) then in models i write these codes below class Product < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :categories, :through => :categorizations

i have a table called Products whit a model product, but in the view i need show the category od the product, but whitout a model of categories... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.