Relationship in Models

Hello,
I’m doing right now my first steps in Ruby on Rails and I’ve got a
problem.
Just some explanation:
A project can have ressources (like an employee) and this ressource can
have certain roles (e.g. a team member, or a team leader).
As you can see in the attachment, I have a Table called
Projects_Ressources. This Table has three relationships (belongs_to).
One to Projects, one to Ressources and one to Roles.

This is my model description for,

role.rb:

class Role < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :projects_ressources
has_many :ressources, :through => :projects_ressources
has_many :permissions_roles
has_many :permissions, :through => :permissions_roles
end

project.rb:

class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :projects_ressources
has_many :ressources, :through => :projects_ressources
end
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ressource.rb:

class Ressource < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :projects_ressources
has_many :projects, :through => :projects_ressources
has_many :roles, :through => :projects_ressources
end

projects_ressources.rb:

class ProjectsRessource < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :ressource
belongs_to :project
belongs_to :role
end

When I’m now in the console, I can get for example the project with id 1

pro = Project.find(1)

And can get all the ressources to this certain project:

employee = pro.ressources

But I want also to know the roles of this ressources. How can I get now
the roles of the ressources to this project with id 1? This doesn’t
work:

role = pro.roles

produces this error in the console:

NoMethodError: undefined method `roles' for # from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record /attribute_methods.rb:260:in `method_missing' from (irb):47 from :0

Is the design of the relationship wrong or what am I missing?

But I want also to know the roles of this ressources. How can I get now
the roles of the ressources to this project with id 1? This doesn’t
work:

role = pro.roles

produces this error in the console:

NoMethodError: undefined method roles' for #<Project:0x4dffdc0> from c:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.5/lib/active_record /attribute_methods.rb:260:inmethod_missing’
from (irb):47
from :0

Is the design of the relationship wrong or what am I missing?

I just started the ruby server again and now it’s working. Maybe a .rb
file wasn’t saved or something like that.
I get now every role of every ressource that is stored in
project_ressources.
Thx anyway.

As seen from above in Project class there is no relation ship defined
for role so how can you expect the result from it.

Add has_many :roles, :through => :projects_ressources
and the required output will be produced.

Hi !

According to your relationships: resource :has_many => roles
but you are using pro.roles. It means project should has many
roles.Its totally wrong accordingly.

First fetch all project_resources for a particular project. Eg.

pr_resources = Project.find(1).project_resources

pr_resources will be a array of pr_resources

Now you can fetch any employee(resource) and its role associated with
project id 1.

for eg. for any project_resource:

resource = pr_resource.resource
role = pr_resource.role

Thanks,


~ Ankur G.
Company: www.innozon.com, Hyderabad

Ankur wrote:

Hi !

According to your relationships: resource :has_many => roles
but you are using pro.roles. It means project should has many
roles.Its totally wrong accordingly.

First fetch all project_resources for a particular project. Eg.

pr_resources = Project.find(1).project_resources

pr_resources will be a array of pr_resources

Now you can fetch any employee(resource) and its role associated with
project id 1.

for eg. for any project_resource:

resource = pr_resource.resource
role = pr_resource.role

Thanks,


~ Ankur G.
Company: www.innozon.com, Hyderabad

I made already an update of the project.rb, because I found out that the
rule was missing. That’s why it worked for ressources but not for
projects.
Thx a lot for your explanation, I’m still in the learning process of RoR
:slight_smile: This is now all clear to me.