Need help with a Power Find()

Rails
1

I was hoping someone would be able to help me with creating a method.

I have two tables. What I am trying to do is create a list of all the
id’s
from table2 that aren’t currently referenced by Table1’s address_id
column.
That way, when I create a new customer I can have a drop down list in
the
view of all the addresses that are not currently being used.

Database

Table1
id
name
address_id

Table2
id
address

Models

class Table1 < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :table2
end

class Table2 < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :table1
end

Controller

def new
@table2 = Table2.find_all # This is what I want to change
@table1 = Table1.new
end

View

<%= collection_select 'table1, ‘table2_id’, @table2, :id, :address -%>

I am very new to ruby and rails and know how to do easier searches, but
doing a search from two tables and matching the results is a little
beyond
me at this point.
If there is a different or better way to go about doing this, I am open
to
suggestions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

~D

2

Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2006, 13:40 -0600 schrieb Dan Wright:

id
end

View

<%= collection_select 'table1, ‘table2_id’, @table2, :id, :address -%>

I am very new to ruby and rails and know how to do easier searches,
but doing a search from two tables and matching the results is a
little beyond me at this point.
If there is a different or better way to go about doing this, I am
open to suggestions.

I gave your classes different names, because i don’t know how Rails will
deal with pluralization and digits.

class Address < ActiveRecord::Base # was Table1
belongs_to Person
end

class Person < Activerecord::Base # was Table2
has_one :address
end

Cotroller:

def new
@unassociated_addresses = Address.find(
:all,
:include => :person,
:conditions => ‘addresses.person_id IS NULL’
)
@person = Person.new
@address = Address.new
end

View:

<%= collection_select 'address, ‘person_id’,
@unassociated_addresses, :id, :address -%>

This code is completely untested.

–
Norman T.

http://blog.inlet-media.de

3

On Mar 1, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Norman T. wrote:

currently
being used.

I gave your classes different names, because i don’t know how Rails
will
deal with pluralization and digits.

By default, it adds or removes an ‘s’. I have an application right
now that has a table whose name ends in a digit and it works just
fine. It would be like a table of (US) tax forms W-2 called “w2s”
with “class Worker < ActiveRecord::Base; has_many :w2s; end”

-Rob