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i am working on a task manager with ruby on rails. it is my first major project, so i''m still gettng my feet wet as i learn. i''ve been trying to use the built in relationships to link my tables together, but i''m not able to use the same naming conventions. for each task, it has a field for the creator, and another field for the assignee. both of these fields

Is there any reason that foreign key fields do not show in any of the scaffold views ? project table: id serial primary key, category_id integer, user_id integer, name varchar, morestuff varchar foreign key (category_id) references categories(id), foreign key (user_id) references users(id) scaffold generated views only show name, morestuff fields

Hi, By convention, if I have a field that is a reference to another record in the `users` table, all I would need to do is to name the column `user_id` and RoR would know it is a reference. However currently I am working on a table that records `actions` that both impact on another user, with each action performed by another user. Thus I''d have 2 columns like `impacted_user_id` and

Hi, Basically I have two models: User and Godfather. The godfather table has three columns: - user_id (FK --> User) - user_godfather_id (FK --> User) - description (text) Inside each model class, I am adding the following associations: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :godfathers # for user_id has_many :godfathers, :foreign_key =>

I have two tables: ------------------------------ drop table if exists users; create table users ( id int not null auto_increment, username varchar(100) not null, password varchar(20) not null, firstname varchar(20) not null, lastname varchar(20) not null, primary key (id) ) TYPE = InnoDB; ------------------------------ drop table

Hi, I''m having a bit of trouble with my first Rails app. ---- I have two tables: create_table :items do |t| t.column :created_at, :timestamp t.column :user_id, :int t.column :text, :text end create_table :users do |t| t.column :user_id, :int t.column :name, :string end ---- I''m trying to use the "user_id" field to link both tables, with each user

Hi, I''ve two tables: ProductLists (id, name, ...) Product (id,name,product_list_1_id, product_list_2_id, ...) How can I map the fields product_list_1_id and product_list_2_id to the ProductLists table in activerecord????? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Can someone point me to a reference or tutorial that shows how to map foreign key relationships in the model? For example given: Users id name email Posts id user_id title How do I associate user_id with users.id in the Post and User models? has_many and belongs_to don''t seem to do it. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am trying to set up a validation in a model to ensure that a record can''t be saved unless the foreign key it belongs_to is a valid record. My model says: class Admin < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :user_id validates_numericality_of :user_id validates_uniqueness_of :user_id validates_associated :user belongs_to :user end but I can still create an admin

I have 2 models right now: "users" and "posts". When a user creates a post I would like their id to be recorded under "user_id" in the "posts" table. Under the "user" model I have: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :posts end And under the "posts" model I have: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user

I keep getting this exception "SQLite3::SQLException: no such column: books.user_id: SELECT "books".* FROM "books" WHERE ("books".user_id = 4)" ,which sounds like there is no user_id in books table.So i just installed foreigner plugin and added " t.integer :user_id, :null => false" and "add_foreign_key(:books, :users)" in book

Hello, I''ve got DB like this: (roughly) create table projects ( id int auto blabla, name varchar(200), user_id int, sales_id int); create table users ( id int auto.., name varchar(50)); So project.user_id has a foreign key to user.id - all is good. Everything works fine. Now my question.. How can set a relationship from two different fields to the users table ?? Fx.

Hi all, I''ve got a Post and User classes. The Post has a user_id attribute to point to the user that created it. I want to implement favorites, so I made Post and User both "has_and_belongs_to_many" and created a favorites join table. The join table has a post_id and a user_id column. Now when I get my post everything seems to be okay, but in some contexts, the user_id

Hi- Say I have a db with following schema: MyTable: Id, name, user_id, date User: id, name, description I know that I want to add "belongs_to" in my "user" model but how can I enforce a proper constraint on the user_id in "MyTable"? Is this done using a has_one in the "MyTable" model? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You

Hello! I have 2 table: users and buddies User: id, name, ... Buddy: id, user_id, user_buddy_id, ... So if you have 2 users 1,jack and 2,fred and fred is a buddy of jack, there is a Buddy object: id=1, user_id=1, user_buddy_id=2 I can declare only one belongs_to in Buddy and one has_many in User. And there is conflict if I had the second one (the first one is discarded) class User has_many

I''m using accepts_nested_attributes as follows: class Timesheet < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :status, :user_id, :start_date, :end_date, :activities_attributes has_many :activities, dependent: :destroy has_many :time_entries, through: :activities accepts_nested_attributes_for :activities, allow_destroy: true end class Activity < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible

All: I have been working on making a self-referential habtm relationship that uses a join model because I want to store info about the relationship. I have been using two sections from Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipes" as a guide, "Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships" and "Many to Many Relationships Where the Relationship Itself has Data". So far I have

Hi, I have a messaging class that has to relationships to one table belongs_to :user, :foreign_key => "from_id" belongs_to :user, :foreign_key => "to_id" At the min I can specify message.user.login and it will return the username of last relationship to that table. how can I get it to bring back both references ie message.from.login and message.to.login thanks scott

I would like to create a model that is based on two database tables: Table1 --------- id (PK) data1 Table2 ---------- id (PK) data2 There is a one-to-one relationship between the records of Table1 and Table2. (That is, for every record in Table1 there is a record with matching id in Table2 and vice versa). The problem is that I cannot alter the table schemas in any way, so I cannot add

Dear all, I'm puzzled by the following example inspired by a recent question on R-help, cc <- textConnection("user_id website time 20 google 0930 21 yahoo 0935 20 facebook 1000 25 facebook 1015 61 google 0940") d <- read.table(cc, head=T) ; close(cc) table(d$user_id) # count the