Finding by association

Rails
1

I have two objects that are associated in the following way:

class Class1 < ApplicationController
has_and_belongs_to_many :class2s
has_and_belongs_to_many :otherClasses
end

class Class2 < ApplicationController
has_and_belongs_to_many :class1s
has_and_bleongs_to_many :otherClasses
end

Now, when I run the following query,

@objects = Class1.find(:all, :conditions => [“class2s.id = ?”,
params[:id]], :include => :class2s)

I expect to get a collection of Class1 objects wihere each Class1 object
would have a fully loaded collection of Class2 objects (since I asked to
:include => :class2s). However, instead, I get a collection of Class1
objects that only have a single Class2 object in their class2s
collection (the Class2 object with the id that I specified in the
conditions clause).

I’m thinking this might have something to do with the habtm bug that is
floating around, but am not sure. Am I doing this right? Any ideas?

  • Jason
2

Hi Jason,
I could be totally missing your point but I think that rails provides
you the ability to do this
@o = myClass1.class2s

@o will now contain an array of all the class2 objects collected in
that instance of myClass1

Mark

On 1/11/06, Jason F. [email protected] wrote:

end
collection (the Class2 object with the id that I specified in the
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What I’m trying to do is find all Class1 objects that have an
association to Class2 objects. However, I also want to make sure that
the Class1 objects that are returned by the find() method have fully
populated Class2 collections, i.e., I want it to depend on lazy loading
to get me my Class2 collection in my Class1 objects.

M Daggett wrote:

Hi Jason,
I could be totally missing your point but I think that rails provides
you the ability to do this
@o = myClass1.class2s

@o will now contain an array of all the class2 objects collected in
that instance of myClass1

Mark

On 1/11/06, Jason F. [email protected] wrote:

end
collection (the Class2 object with the id that I specified in the
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http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

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