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Regarding validates_associated... Let''s say I have: article belongs_to author But for whatever reason, I want an article to also be written anonymously and therefore not require an author. Then I have: Article: belongs_to :author validates_associated :author But I DON''T have validates_presence_of. What I want to do is validate that an author is valid --if it is

Hello, I''m learning A.R Associations by creating a simple forum that consists of 3 tables: ahuthors, topics and posts. This is the schema: class AddAuthorAndTopicAndPostTables < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :authors do |t| t.column :username, :string t.column :email, :string t.column :created_on, :datetime end create_table

Hi. I have a problem with the association methods which passed to a model through a belongs_to declaration. Here''s an illustration of the issue: GIVEN: # migration class CreateArticlesAndAuthorsTables < ActiveRecord::Migration   def self.up     create_table :articles do |t|       t.text     :title       t.integer :author_id     end     create_table :authors do |t|       t.text

Hi, I am entering value in textbox ("name") on form. Now name field in database is having ''unique'' constraint on it so that no 2 records with same name allowed in database. Now when I m trying to enter same name into database from my form I m getting following error. ================================ Mysql::Error: #23000Duplicate entry ''Prashant''

Suppose I have a site about books and authors, and users can leave comments on either a book or an author. I''d want to have a table called "comments", which could belong to either an author OR a book. In my structure I wouldn''t be sure whether to include an "author_id" or a "book_id", or both. What would be the best way to handle this

Under Rails 2.3.2 using a completely brand new project, I have 2 models: class Author < ActiveRecord::Base # name:string end class Book < ActiveRecord::Base # title:string belongs_to :author # author_id end And a simple test where i create a Book with an Author using the belongs_to and then update the foreign key directly: require ''test_helper'' class BookTest

Hi, Everything is in the title. With Rails 2.3.4 and MySQL 5.0.41: If have a table like this: +----------------+------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +----------------+------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL |

Has anybody noticed validates_uniqueness_of missing in rails 3.0 rc2? I''m not sure if this is a bug or I''m just doing something wrong. Here''s what I''m doing. Class 1: class Title < ActiveRecord::Base validates_length_of :language, :is => 3 validates_uniqueness_of :language, :scope => :book_id validate :language,

I have this in a model validates_uniqueness_of :aspect, :scope => :user_id In an instance method of the same model I have "save!" but I don''t touch the :aspect attribute in that instance method at all. Whenever that save! command is run however I get this error: ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Aspect has already been taken I don''t

Hi, In this tutorial http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoUseJoinsWithFindAll it sad: sql =<<SQL SELECT articles.*, authors.name AS author_name FROM articles LEFT JOIN authors ON author_id = authors.id SQL and this return *app/controllers/media_controller.rb:366: can''t find string "SQL" anywhere before EOF* what is wrong? the tutorial or ruby changed? please,

I have an array authors=[1,3,7] and I want to get all the posts that match with any or all of these results. something like... posts = Post.find(:all, [:conditions => ''''author_id = ?'', authors]) of course this wont work but I need something like it that works.. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~

Suppose I have three tables - authors, posts and topics. Every post have a topic and every topic has an author, so I have posts.topic_id and topic.author_id. When the author is guest (not registered), author_id is nil. I need to find all the posts (in one query) where every post have all the information of the topic and the auther, so if p is one of those posts I could get the name of the

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

Today I face with incorrect behavior in ActiveRecord. It take place when I try to use :include parameter for .find method. Where are two typical cases: 1. You have record with self-referential joins CREATE TABLE keywords (id, group_id); class Keyword < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :group, :class_name => "Keyword", :foreign_key =>

Seemingly, when I use a symbol, I get an ActiveRecord error stating ''Can''t convert symbol into String.'' Why can''t I use a symbol here? Possibly this is a deeper misunderstanding of symbols in general on my part. #ActiveRecord error class Book < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :author, :class_name => :Person, :foreign_key => :author_id end #works

I''ve got a publications table that contains an author_id foreign key and a pubrole_id foreign key. What I want to do is query the DB using AR so that I can get a list of all publications that belong_to a particular author, and group the results by the pubrole.role_name (Author, Joint Author, Editor, etc.) so that the results look something like: Author book1 info book2 info etc.

(This message was originally written on StackOverflow -- the formatting is much prettier there -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283046/problem-with-setter-override-on-activerecord) This is not exactly a question, it''s rather a report on how I solved an issue with write_attribute when the attribute is an object, on Rails'' Active Record. I hope this can be useful to others

Hey, I got a form which looks like this: - form_for(@article, :html => {:multipart => true}, :url => articles_path) do |f| = errors_for(@article) .field = f.label :text %br = f.text_field :text .field = f.label :author_id %br = f.text_field :author_id .actions = f.submit But since I don''t want anyone to type in an author id I changed it

Here is my model: class Account < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :users, :dependent => :destroy has_many :bus belongs_to :currency has_many :mylogs, :dependent => :destroy has_many :batchuserdefines, :dependent => :destroy has_many :materialuserdefines, :dependent => :destroy has_many :materials has_many :inventories has_many :batchs has_many :courses has_many

Hello again: I''m hoping that somebody, anybody, can help with this question. How do I make sure that records in a join model are unique? Using the scenario outlined in Chad Fowler''s "Rails Recipies", number 16, "Many to Many Relationships Where the Relationship Iteself Has Data". Here are the tables: create_table :magazines do |t| t.column :title,