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When I do this: term = Term.find(1, :include => :definition) term.definition.term Two SQL queries are fired, why? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Suppose I have a belongs_to relationship and the thing it belongs to, belongs in turn to something else. For example, I would like to do: belongs_to :city belongs_to: :county, :through => :city While it is not too much trouble to do obj.city.county, there are times when I need to iterate through the attributes and include this second-order attribute. Special code to handle this messes up

I have a problem that surfaced in my attempt to upgrade my application to Rails 1.1. We have a STI model on the "belongs_to" side of a has_many/belongs_to relationship. All my unit tests for this model pass, and the relationships all seem to work fine. But in my functional tests, I''m getting errors. I''ve traced it back into the call to the has_many

Hi, Found a simple example breaking on moving to 2.2 from 2.0. This example illustrates the usage of nested :include finder options. class Book < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :distributors end class Distributor < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :book has_many :agents end class Agent < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :distributor has_many :shops end class Shop <

I have: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :comments do def published find( :all, :conditions => {:published => true} ) end end end When in my controller I do Post.find(:first).comments.published.paginate :page => params[:page] I get an error undefined method `paginate'' for []:Array Is will_paginate supposed to

If the associated object of a has_one association has been loaded, it is resaved when the parent is saved. Eg: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :user end class User < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end p = Person.find(:first) p.save # As expected, nothing happens with the user association p.user # Loads the associated object p.save # As well as saving the person, the

I''ve got User has_one Shop. Rails is not validating when I tried create_shop or build_shop, neither in the browser nor the rails console. My code: class Shop < ActiveRecord::Base attr_protected :user_id belongs_to :user validates_presence_of :name, :primary_address, :city, :country_code, :currency end class ShopsController < ApplicationController before_filter

Hey guys and gals, I have the following object that has acts_as_versioned: class Note < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_versioned belongs_to :user end The schema for my notes table is as follows: create_table :notes, :force => true do |t| t.column :id, :integer t.column :noteshare_id, :integer t.column :user_id, :integer t.column :title, :string

I have two tables, a Projects table and a Clients table. It''s basically a HABTM relationship, but I have additional project/ client-specific information in the join table. I''m trying to use the new has_many :through method to join these. It works fine when displaying records, but when I try to search, I''m having this problem: When I used a HABTM model to search

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 <

Every once in a while, I pipe up and whine that "belongs_to" should really be ''refers_to" [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2130]. It''s time again. I''ve got a bunch of stuff going onto eBay, so, like any good engineer, I don''t just post it manually: I design a Rails-based inventory database that creates a semantically-correct XHTML/CSS auction

Hi all. Got a stupid-simple question about associations. I have two models - school and course. There are a fixed number of schools (set up in the migration). Each course is assigned a school and a school will be associated with multiple courses... How do I set up the associations? Do (can) I have School :has_one :course and Course :has_many :schools? Does the schools table then get a course_id

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

In a model, it seems that methods for column access are only created when one column method on an object is accessed. So, how can one override the default column methods? For instance: create_table "dogs", :force => true do |t| t.column "color", :string end create_table "tails", :force => true do |t| t.column "dog_id", :integer,

So my automated script caught this issue, though I think my email headers were bad, so rails-core has put the automated email on hold pending "moderation". I''ll fix that issue, and look at the one below as well. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Rails AR/Oracle Unit Test: [4185] failed Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:32:04 -0700 From: Michael Schoen

Hi there- I''m a newbie to this board, RoR, and web development in general. So please forgive me if this is in the wrong place or if the solution is really simple... I''m trying to conceptualize the relationships between a series of models for a page creation function. What I''d like is to have a Content Page which consists of a series of Content Blocks. The Content

While I''m happy to continue talking about the vagaries of Rails deployments, I also need to actually build apps. :) I may have discovered a bit of a problem with :include as it applies to has_one associations. First, let me say that I''m a big fan of :include for reducing the number of SQL calls. There are times when I wish it could go more than 1 step away from the parent

I''ve been using polymorphic joins from edge rails based on about 5 lines of advice Rick Olson gave me over IRC. There''s some sparse documentation popping up but it seems to cover a somewhat different case. Anyway - I pretty much got it to work - save for one detail. Here''s what I have: class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :attachable, :polymorphic =>

I''m new to rails and ruby, and after trying to get this to work correctly for hours, I thought I''d give this forum an try. I''ve setup a trivial project just to mess around with Rails database naming conventions and associations. I''ve got a table called Pets, and a table called Types. Pets contains a list of pets, Parky the cat, Daisy the dog, etc, And Types

I know you get a lot of questions like this, but I couldn''t find one which answers exactly what I''m after. I''m reasonably new to rails, and I''m having a bit of trouble with when to use belongs_to. On the rails wiki ( http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/belongs_to), it says "In general, the Foo model belongs_to :bar if the foo table has a bar_id foreign