I have a legacy MySQL DB which is ALMOST Rails-ready, i.e. the table
names
are correct, they all have a unique integer index ‘id’ etc. However, I
have
a table, ‘leads’ which contains an index to ‘origins’ such that
leads.howdidyouhear=origins.id. If this were truly Rails-ready, the
leads.howdidyouhear would be leads.origins_id, but, I cannot rename it.
The
db’s look like this:
CREATE TABLE origins (
id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
originname varchar(60) NOT NULL default ‘’
)
CREATE TABLE leads (
id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
howdidyouhear int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
amount double NOT NULL default ‘0’,
homeplan int(3) NOT NULL default ‘0’
)
My problem is mapping this in active record. When I map it as follows (I
am
not certain this is correct, can someone please confirm?) :
class Origin < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :leads, :foreign_key => ‘originname’
end
class Lead < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :origin, :foreign_key => ‘howdidyouhear’
end
However, when I create:
class LeadController < ApplicationController
scaffold :lead
end
The scaffolding for /lead still shows the integer for howdidyouhear.
Shouldn’t it show the originname String for the howdidyouhear int when
it
displays?
Thanks, Ike