Migrations - adding a new table and automatically creating r

Rails
#1

I want to create table called roles and then populate it with some new
records…This doesn’t work. Is there something I’m missing?

Craig

class AddRightsAndRolesTables < ActiveRecord::Migration

def self.up

create_table :roles do |t|
  t.column "name", :string
end

  Role.reset_column_information
  Role.new :name => "Users Admin"
  Role.new :name => "Users Create"
  Role.new :name => "Users View"
  Role.new :name => "Users None"

end

def self.down
drop_table :roles
end

end

#2

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:13:27PM -0700, Craig W. wrote:

  t.column "name", :string

def self.down

You forgot to save them.

#3

Craig W. wrote:

I want to create table called roles and then populate it with some new
records…This doesn’t work. Is there something I’m missing?

Craig

class AddRightsAndRolesTables < ActiveRecord::Migration

def self.up

create_table :roles do |t|
  t.column "name", :string
end

  Role.reset_column_information
  Role.new :name => "Users Admin"
  Role.new :name => "Users Create"
  Role.new :name => "Users View"
  Role.new :name => "Users None"

end

def self.down
drop_table :roles
end

end

Instead of new use create

Role.create :name => “…”

#4

use Role.create instead, as Role.new doesn’t save the record

#5

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 23:16 -0600, Pat M. wrote:

use Role.create instead, as Role.new doesn’t save the record

On 4/14/06, Craig W. [email protected] wrote:

I want to create table called roles and then populate it with some new
records…This doesn’t work. Is there something I’m missing?

bingo thanks…ok, one follow up question then…

another section of my migrations creates a join table…

create_table :rights_roles, :id => false do |t|
  t.column "right_id", :integer
  t.column "role_id", :integer
end

and that’s fine, but I am adding data to rights table and to roles table
but the join table isn’t getting populated. So I figured I would do it
afterwards this way…

  Right.find(:all).each do |ri|
    ro = Role.find(:first, :conditions => :name == ri.name)
    RightsRoles.create :right_id => ri, :role_id => ro
  end

but when I run the migration, I get the following error…

rake aborted!
PGError: ERROR: relation “rights_roles_id_seq” does not exist
: SELECT currval(‘rights_roles_id_seq’)

and of course, the relation “rights_roles_id_seq” doesn’t exist because
I told it not to create it above.

How do I populate a join table (or do I?) when I set values to the 2
tables being joined in migration?

Craig

#6

On 4/15/06, Craig W. [email protected] wrote:

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http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

I don’t see why you’d have a RightsRoles AR model anyway…

What you should do is
Right.find(:all).each { |ri| ri.roles << Role.find(:first,
:conditions => :name == ri.name) }

#7

On Apr 15, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Craig W. wrote:

Role.find(:first, :conditions => :name == “Case Managers Admin”)
=> nil

Can someone clarify for me?

Role.find(:first, :conditions => “name = Case Managers Admin”)

:conditions is just a plain SQL string, or an array of query string
and replacement values:

type = ‘Case Managers Admin’

Role.find(:first, :conditions => [“name = ?”,type])

placeholders are nice, because they will get quoted automatically,
avoiding SQL injection. Eventually, no doubt, someone will wire
up the correct functions in the DB driver and they’ll also be more
efficient than interpolation (if SQL injection avoidance isn’t
reason enough!).

–
– Tom M.

#8

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:23 -0700, Tom M. wrote:

type = ‘Case Managers Admin’

Role.find(:first, :conditions => [“name = ?”,type])

placeholders are nice, because they will get quoted automatically,
avoiding SQL injection. Eventually, no doubt, someone will wire
up the correct functions in the DB driver and they’ll also be more
efficient than interpolation (if SQL injection avoidance isn’t
reason enough!).

seeing as how this is for migrations, if I have to worry about sql
injection here, I have a lot of issues to deal with.

Yes, it turned out that I only needed to simplify like the above.

Craig

#9

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 01:50 -0600, Pat M. wrote:

bingo thanks…ok, one follow up question then…
afterwards this way…
: SELECT currval(‘rights_roles_id_seq’)
What you should do is
Right.find(:all).each { |ri| ri.roles << Role.find(:first,
:conditions => :name == ri.name) }

makes sense but I’m getting unexpected behavior…so I’m trying to work
it through via script/console…

This works…

Role.find(:first)
=> #<Role:0xb7a1f048 @attributes={“name”=>“Case Managers Admin”,
“id”=>“1”}>

This doesn’t work

Role.find(:first, :conditions => :name == “Case Managers Admin”)
=> nil

Can someone clarify for me?

Thanks

Craig