Curious why this doesn't work. (has_many, belongs_to)

Rails
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Two Models.

class Gm < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :pool

mode code here.

end

class Pool < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :gms

mode code here.

end

Testing code through the console.

gm_list.each{ | gm | puts " GM name: #{ gm.user_name } belongs to Pool: #{ gm.pool.pool_name } " }; nil
GM name: John belongs to Pool: RHP 07-08 Season - Career League
GM name: Stef belongs to Pool: RHP 07-08 Season - Career League
GM name: Chris belongs to Pool: RHP 07-08 Season - Career League
=> nil

Works nice!

Inversely… this doesn’t…

pool = Pool.find_all
=> [#<Pool:0xb7022dc8 @attributes={“last_modified”=>nil, “id”=>“1”,
“salary_cap”=>“40000000”, “pool_name”=>“RHP 07-08 Season - Career
League”, “created”=>nil}>]

puts pool.gm
NoMethodError: undefined method `gm’ for #Array:0xb7022ee0
from (irb):8

puts pool.gms
NoMethodError: undefined method `gms’ for #Array:0xb7022ee0
from (irb):9

puts pool.gms.each {|g| puts “Gm in this pool: #{gm.user_name}” }; nil
NoMethodError: undefined method `gms’ for #Array:0xb7022ee0
from (irb):10

I thought that specifying a ‘belongs_to’ and ‘has_many’ relationship
would automatically allow me to navigate my data in both directions.

Any comments are welcome.

Thanks!

2

Jean N. wrote:

Two Models.

class Gm < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :pool

mode code here.

end

class Pool < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :gms

mode code here.

end

Testing code through the console.

gm_list.each{ | gm | puts " GM name: #{ gm.user_name } belongs to Pool: #{ gm.pool.pool_name } " }; nil
GM name: John belongs to Pool: RHP 07-08 Season - Career League
GM name: Stef belongs to Pool: RHP 07-08 Season - Career League
GM name: Chris belongs to Pool: RHP 07-08 Season - Career League
=> nil

Works nice!

Inversely… this doesn’t…

pool = Pool.find_all
=> [#<Pool:0xb7022dc8 @attributes={“last_modified”=>nil, “id”=>“1”,
“salary_cap”=>“40000000”, “pool_name”=>“RHP 07-08 Season - Career
League”, “created”=>nil}>]

puts pool.gm
NoMethodError: undefined method `gm’ for #Array:0xb7022ee0
from (irb):8

puts pool.gms
NoMethodError: undefined method `gms’ for #Array:0xb7022ee0
from (irb):9

puts pool.gms.each {|g| puts “Gm in this pool: #{gm.user_name}” }; nil
NoMethodError: undefined method `gms’ for #Array:0xb7022ee0
from (irb):10

I thought that specifying a ‘belongs_to’ and ‘has_many’ relationship
would automatically allow me to navigate my data in both directions.

Any comments are welcome.

Thanks!

Well I figured out why…

I forgot to realize that ‘pool’ (in my above examples) is not an
instance of a pool in this case, it’s an array that needs to be iterated
and then each iteration needs to have the ‘p.gms.each’ performed on
it…

Like so:

pools = Pool.find_all.each{ |p| p.gms.each { |g| puts “GMs in pool #{ g.user_name }” } }; nil
GMs in pool John
GMs in pool Stef
GMs in pool Chris
=> nil

Sorry about the spam. :slight_smile:

(P.S. Damn I love code blocks in Ruby)