Stuck on ActiveRecord

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m having great fun developing with Rails but I’ve come to a problem
that I can’t quite figure out.

I have an Order object that “has_many” order_lines. This works perfectly
and I can see all the lines.

The OrderLine object has an order_id field as well as product_id and
amount.

Now ideally I would want to do :

order.orderline[0].product.name

for example to pull back the name of the product it’s linking to - but
no matter what I try, I cannot get that to work.

Can anyone tell what I’m doing wrong? I imagine it’s pretty obvious…

Thanks in advance!

2

Hmm…

OrderLine “belongs_to” “products”, right?

Also:

If you are doing a Order “has_many” “order_lines”, you should call
things this way:

order.order_lines…

instead of

order.orderline…

3

Oooh! I might know this.

I’m just a beginner, but what I’ve done is something like this:

Product.find(orderline[0].product_id).name

Is there an easier way?

Chris

4

If you have
OrderLine model
belongs_to :order

…then you’ll be able to say:
@the_order_line.order

So, if you want to go the other way:
@the_order.order_line
… you need the association in your Order class so that it knows. It
doesn’t look it the other models for associations that refer to it.

Order model
has_many :order_lines

If you already have this, then you might try checking order, then
orderlines, then product, then name. Maybe you’re missing an
association
there somewhere. If that doesn’t work, some detail about what you’re
actually getting would help.

One other thing that helps me is the Rails console. You can
interactively
make an Order, test its lines, etc all without the continually
save/refresh
cycle of doing it in a web browser.

— Wes

5

Hi,

Sorry, I was using order_lines :slight_smile:

At present OrderLine belongs to Order

6

For what it’s worth I haven’t written much rails/ruby, I mostly lurk
here
… but that said,
Order has many OrderLines has many Products seems like your model and
from
what you’ve described, you’re missing that final association …

I guess I’d also think OrderLines would have order_id, product_id and
quantity … while Products would have unit cost, description, etc …

7

Yes, that’s what I’ve got

the :

order.orderlines

bit works perfectly and I can do :

order.orderlines[0].product_id

which will give me the product id of a Product in the product table.

But I want to do :

order.orderlines[0].product

which would point to the product in that line item. Is this possible?

8

Just to correct myself … it’d be Order has many OrderLines has one
Product

9

Does your OrderLine model have a “has_one Product” in it? … that’s
what I
think you’re missing even if I’m not syntactically perfect;)

10

Right, what Hank said, almost.
You’ve got the
Order model
has_many :order_lines

You know that it’s working because you can get to the product_id, which
is
on the order line. Since you can’t get to the product, you know that
the
OrderLine model doesn’t know about the product.

OrderLine model
belongs_to :product

You want belongs_to because the id for the product is in the order_lines
table. Once you add that to the OrderLines model, you should be able to
access a product from an order detail.

If you haven’t read this:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html
… it’s got very good examples of when to use which association.

– Wes

On 3/21/06, Hank M. [email protected] wrote:

order.orderlines

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-- Wes
11

That’s a handy link for the examples Wes … I might have to actually
start
writing some of this stuff just for fun so I can better grok the syntax
more
naturally.

12

Hi,

When I try that I get this error :

undefined method `assert_valid_keys’ for :Product:Symbol

I’m going to google for it now :slight_smile: