AR type mismatch problem

Rails
1

I am getting this error when trying to assign a Cart instance to a
parent.cart has_one assoc.

ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in
CustomerOrdersController#create
Cart(#2188120600) expected, got Cart(#2198420140)

I can get it to work in the console but not in my app… I imagine I
am doing something screwy in the app, but, I’m confused by the
mismatch error as it says the two class instances are both of the same
class.

Thoughts?

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:29 AM, elliottg [email protected] wrote:

class.

Thoughts?

Not sure, but a possibility is that one of the 2 Cart classes is
really MyModule::Cart and the other ::Cart . You may check if
you have defined class Cart in a module. Maybe you then
need to use the fully qualified name ::Cart or MyModule::Cart.

HTH,

Peter

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Thanks for the feedback. Both Carts are definitely the same Class (no
modules are at play). Everything works perfectly in the console. It
blows up when the app runs as Dev.

After I reboot the local server the first time the request is passed I
do NOT have the mismatch error. All subsequent calls blow up however.

Thoughts?

Thanks, EG

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On Sep 21, 9:52am, elliottg [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. Both Carts are definitely the same Class (no
modules are at play). Everything works perfectly in the console. It
blows up when the app runs as Dev.

After I reboot the local server the first time the request is passed I
do NOT have the mismatch error. All subsequent calls blow up however.

Hard to tell without seeing code, but it sounds distinctly like you’ve
got the classic “putting ActiveRecord objects into the session”
problem. In development mode, this breaks in exactly this sort of
bizarre way because the classes are reloaded between requests.

–Matt J.

5

Thanks for the inout guys. Sessions are at play, but I’m only storing
the Cart’s id. I’ll try the config.cache_classes setting and get back
to you.

EG

6

config.cache_classes = true worked. But that opens up a whole new
issue right? IE reboot server after each model edit?!

Thoughts?
PS thanks for the help so far.

EG

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On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Matt J. wrote:

got the classic “putting ActiveRecord objects into the session”
problem. In development mode, this breaks in exactly this sort of
bizarre way because the classes are reloaded between requests.

–Matt J.

…Or just reloaded classes in development. You can verify if this is,
in fact, the problem by changing the:
config.cache_classes = false
to
config.cache_classes = true
and possibly
config.action_controller.perform_caching = true # usually false in
development

-Rob

Rob B.
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