Has many association problem

Rails
1

Dear all

I have the following 2 models, with 2 difference data sources. I would
like to create a has_many relation to SX1::Request

pat = SX9::Patient.find(“123456789”)

pat.pat_encounter_group
=> 99999

By default, rails will use the PK(Primary Key) of SX9::Patient then pass
to SX1::Request. e.g.

SELECT * FROM request WHERE (request.req_encounter_group = “123456789”)

What I am expected is to override the primary_key in SX9::Patient
has_many relation with :primary_key => “pat_encounter_group”. i.e.

SELECT * FROM request WHERE (request.req_encounter_group = 99999)

But I failed to do…

Luckily, I can achieve this by defining a instance method. e.g.
def find_request_by_pat_encounter_group
SX1::Request.find_all_by_req_encounter_group(self.pat_encounter_group)
end

My question, is it possible to do this in has_many relationship? Thank
you.

module SX9
class Patient < RemoteSX9Model
set_table_name “patient”
set_primary_key “pat_encounter”

# I tried this but failed
has_many :requests, :class_name => "SX1::Request", :primary_key =>

“pat_encounter_group”, :foreign_key => “req_encounter_group”
end
end

module SX1
class Request < RemoteSX1Model
set_table_name “request”
set_primary_key “req_reqno”
end
end

Thank you very much
Valentino

2

any idea?

Thanks

3

You didn’t say if it exists, but I’m guessing that there’s an
‘encounter group’ table associated to that number (99999). In which
case, what you’re looking at is a has_many :through relation.

(code example simplified - fix up with modules, etc as your app needs)

class Patient < ActiveRecord::Base

has field pat_encounter_group

belongs_to :encounter_group, :foreign_key => ‘pat_encounter_group’
has_many :requests, :through => :encounter_group
end

class EncounterGroup < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :patients, :foreign_key => ‘pat_encounter_group’
has_many :requests, :foreign_key => ‘req_encounter_group’
end

class Request < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :encounter_group, :foreign_key => ‘req_encounter_group’
has_many :patients, :through => :encounter_group
end

[Note: I haven’t tried this code, but it should work according to the
documentation]

On the other hand, the code you’ve got below should, in principle,
also work. How exactly did it “fail”?

–Matt J.

On Mar 17, 6:07 am, Valentino L. [email protected]