Association through 2 intermediate Models

Rails
1

Hey,

I have an association chain like this:

Site has_many Feed(s) has_many FeedEntry(/ies) has_many Articles

where the reverse is always belongs_to:

Article belongs_to FeedEntry belongs_to Feed belongs_to Site

Now what I want is to get all articles that belong to a specific Site,
something like Site.first.articles

I can’t figure out how to do this, or if it’s possible with
has_many :through
Can anyone give me a hint please?

Thank you

2

you can use through na…

3

sorry, what?

On Feb 25, 1:55 pm, Priya B. [email protected]

4

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:27 AM, sol [email protected] wrote:

sorry, what?

On Feb 25, 1:55 pm, Priya B. [email protected]
wrote:

you can use through na…

Hi, I recommend reading AWDwR 3ed on using ‘has_many through’ for the
details.

Good luck,

-Conrad

5

perhaps the responses could be a bit more helpful here?

sol,

I have done it through 2 level associations using through

eg.

Sites

has_many :feed_entries, :through=>:feeds

I have tried with 3 levels, but never got it to work, ie, how do you
chain the throughs. I have tried to make sure that the through is in
place at each level, but to no avail.

Perhaps someone may be able to enlighten us.

Tonypm

6

I don’t know if you can get there just w/HM=>T, but you can fake out the
last link w/a custom method. This is working for me:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :feed_entry
end

class FeedEntry < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :feed
has_many :articles
end

class Feed < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :site
has_many :feed_entries
has_many :articles, :through => :feed_entries
end

class Site < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :feeds
def articles
arts = []
self.feeds.each do |f|
arts << f.articles
end
# Not sure if that uniq call is necessary…
arts.flatten.uniq
end
end

That gives me a my_site.articles collection which returns the union of
all articles attached to any feed_entry attached to any feed attached to
the Site.

HTH,

-Roy

7

Hi,

On Feb 25, 2:34 pm, Conrad T. [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I recommend reading AWDwR 3ed on using ‘has_many through’ for the
details.

These details are the reason I’m asking :slight_smile:

is this:
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/nested_has_many_through

still the only way to do this? or am I just blind.