Nested has_many :through relations fixed in 2.1.0?

Rails
1

Searching on google yields quite a lot of results describing the
following problems:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :house
end

class House < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :people
belongs_to :city
end

class City < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :houses
has_many :people, :through => :houses
belongs_to :country
end

class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :cities
has_many :houses, :through => :cities
end

So far so good. Yet, I want to know all the people living in a country.
Creating the following has_many :through relation yields an error on
call: has_many :people, :through => :houses in the Country class. With
the abovementioned code this is only possible by iterating through all
coutry.houses and collecting the house.people.

Aparently in 2006 and 2007 alot of people walked into the same problems,
yet in Rails 2.1.0 I am still unable to make said relation. Is this bug
still not fixed, or am I doing something wrong in calling it?

2

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Chris D. <
[email protected]> wrote:

belongs_to :city
has_many :houses, :through => :cities
still not fixed, or am I doing something wrong in calling it?

Hi, which statement generates the error? Do you have foreign keys on
both
House and City models? If not, you should have the following foreign
keys:

City: country_id, house_id

House: city_id, person_id

From the above, your join models are House and City. Thus, I would
recommend working with your City, House, and Person models first. For
example, you should be able to answer the following questions:

Who lives in CityA?

city = City.find_by_name( ‘CityA’ )
residents = city.people

Which City does John live?

john = Person.find_by_name( ‘John’ )
city = john.city

Note: When attempting to answer these questions, both ends of the
association must have been saved (i.e. committed to the database). For
example, you’ll need to do the following:

person = Person.create( :name => ‘John’ )
city = City.create( :name => ‘Chicago’ )

city.people << person

After you get this working, then you can start to play with the Country,
City, and House models. For example, you should be able to answer the
following questions:

What houses are in CountryA?

and so on

Good luck,

-Conrad