A simple problem, please help

Rails
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I have a recipe and a category table, as per

recipe belongs to a category
a category has many recipes

in my controller, how do i get an instance variable that contains all
recipes that belong to the category ‘sweet’?

please please help
thanks

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Hi –

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, pingu wrote:

I have a recipe and a category table, as per
Radar – O’Reilly

recipe belongs to a category
a category has many recipes

in my controller, how do i get an instance variable that contains all
recipes that belong to the category ‘sweet’?

Probably something like this:

@recipes = Category.find_by_name(“sweet”).recipes

David

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Thanks very much David, but i get the followng error, any idea?

undefined method `find_by_name’ for Category:Class

4

Just figured it out, replace the ‘name’ part, with the field in the
database, thats great, thank you so much.

5

With

@recipes = Category.find_by_name(“sweet”).recipes

what would i do if i wanted to pass in “sweet” as a variable? can i use
:id with this?

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pingu wrote:

With

@recipes = Category.find_by_name(“sweet”).recipes

what would i do if i wanted to pass in “sweet” as a variable? can i use
:id with this?

If you are using the normal ID field of a model then you on need

@recipes = Category.find(@params[:id]).recipes

.find works with the ID. The others basically extend the
.find_by_ pattern.

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thankyou