Table Relationships Problems

I have the following tables setup:

locations
:id
:name

systemmessages
:id
:name

systemmessage_validtimes
:id
:name
:systemmessage_id
:location_id
:start
:end

The systemmessage_validtimes has a ‘has_many’ relationship with
systemmessages, meaning that there could be many valid times for each
system message.
@systemMessage = Systemmessage.find(1)

E.g. I can access a system valid time like this :

@systemMessage.systemmessage_datetimeranges[0].id

I went ahead and made systemmessage_validtimes belong_to locations. But
when I try to access the locations variable, it doesn’t exist. The
location object isn’t being joined into the return object. I can
retireve
the location_id, but the following fails :

@systemMessage.systemmessage_datetimeranges[0].location.name

I did an inspect on the @systemMessage object, and ‘location’ object
does
not exist.

Is there a problem with nested relationships such as the one outlined
above?

Jim

Am Mittwoch, den 15.03.2006, 16:35 -0800 schrieb Jim J.:

systemmessage_validtimes
@systemMessage = Systemmessage.find(1)

E.g. I can access a system valid time like this :

@systemMessage.systemmessage_datetimeranges[0].id

I went ahead and made systemmessage_validtimes belong_to locations. But
when I try to access the locations variable, it doesn’t exist. The
location object isn’t being joined into the return object. I can retireve
the location_id, but the following fails :

Above you speak about belongs_to locations. I think you mean belongs_to
location. Singular.

@systemMessage.systemmessage_datetimeranges[0].location.name

I did an inspect on the @systemMessage object, and ‘location’ object does
not exist.

Is there a problem with nested relationships such as the one outlined above?

No, there is no problem and what you looks ok. Can you please show your
SystemmessageValidtimes model code to us.


Norman T.

http://blog.inlet-media.de

Thanks for the reply Norman.

I am stupid. I was doing a find(@id) on the record, and I should have
been calling my model function,

Systemmessage.findSystemMessage(@id)

Calling the model function seems to transcribe the heirarchy correctly.
So, you have to implement a find function in your model to transcribe
the full data set (a standard find() on the model won’t do this)?

Or am I misidentifying the issue?

Thanks again Norman.

Jim

Should be using belongs_to, not has_many from that side.

Am Donnerstag, den 16.03.2006, 19:01 +0100 schrieb Jim J.:

Or am I misidentifying the issue?

Thanks again Norman.

Jim

Sorry, but i can’t follow you. ActiveRecord supplies all basic methods
to navigate through your models.

What does Systemmessage.findSystemMessage(@id) return?


Norman T.

http://blog.inlet-media.de