Hello!
I am trying to track ports - think patch panels and servers. There
are many ports per location, and each port can have zero or one
connection to another port. I would think that a self referencing
has_one relationship would do the trick, but for all the googling and
such cannot make it quite work.
The ports table would has:
class CreatePorts < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :ports do |t|
t.column “location_id”, :integer
t.column “position”, :integer
t.column “connection_id”, :integer
t.column “name”, :string
end
end
The model would has :
class Port < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :location
validates_presence_of :location_id
belongs_to :connection, :class_name => ‘Port’, :foreign_key =>
‘connection_id’
end
This model works fine with data in the table, but I can’t create new
ports - I get an error:
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.prefetch_primary_key?
which I assume is it complaining that there is not a matching ‘nil’
key in the ports table for the connection_id to map to.
I didn’t think a join table would work, since it would basically be
two columns of port ids, which could be entered in either order with
any given port id unique across both columns.
Is there a better way to do this?
Any advice appreciated!