Comment.user associations with acts_as_commentable

Rails
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I’m using acts_as_commentable and running in to a problem when trying to
access objects associated with the comment.user.

For example: My app has groups, and a group belongs to a user. If I
write group.user.comments, I’ll see a hash for every comment that the
group.user has made. However, if I try comment.user.groups, ActiveRecord
tells me that the ‘groups’ method doesn’t exist for user. The ‘groups’
method does exist when I write user.groups, however. So I’m betting this
has something to do with the polymorphic associations in
acts_as_commentable; but at the moment I don’t understand how to make
comments.user.groups work the way I want it to. Does anyone know what
I’m missing?

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Neil C. wrote:

I’m using acts_as_commentable and running in to a problem when trying to
access objects associated with the comment.user.

For example: My app has groups, and a group belongs to a user. If I
write group.user.comments, I’ll see a hash for every comment that the
group.user has made. However, if I try comment.user.groups, ActiveRecord
tells me that the ‘groups’ method doesn’t exist for user. The ‘groups’
method does exist when I write user.groups, however. So I’m betting this
has something to do with the polymorphic associations in
acts_as_commentable; but at the moment I don’t understand how to make
comments.user.groups work the way I want it to. Does anyone know what
I’m missing?

I finally fixed this by creating my own commentable associations. I
don’t know why I had to do so - maybe it’s something to do with how
plugins inherit from activerecord - but my comment.user.groups
associations are now working just fine.

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Hi Neil,
I think I am having exactly this problem and I was wondering if you
could tell me what you mean by “I finally fixed this by creating my
own commentable associations.” ?

In my app, I have events and users, both of which act_as_commentable.
When I try to load comment.user.avatar (<-- an act_as_attachment
image) I get the undefined method error (in my case ‘avatar’).

thanks

Paul

On Apr 6, 12:49 pm, Neil C. [email protected]

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Paul wrote:

Hi Neil,
I think I am having exactly this problem and I was wondering if you
could tell me what you mean by “I finally fixed this by creating my
own commentable associations.” ?

In my app, I have events and users, both of which act_as_commentable.
When I try to load comment.user.avatar (<-- an act_as_attachment
image) I get the undefined method error (in my case ‘avatar’).

thanks

Paul

On Apr 6, 12:49 pm, Neil C. [email protected]

Hi Paul

It’s been ages since I fixed this and I’m not even using polymorphic
comments anymore. However, I believe the problem was fixed by simply
creating my own polymorphic comments and dropping the plugin altogether.
This is pretty easy to do. Just run the migration, create the comment
model, set up the associations between the user and the comment, and
that’s it. The plugin (something to do with it being loaded as a plugin
and a separate module, presumably) seemed to break the associations that
belonged to the user.

Hope that helps