I’m sure there’s something right under my nose that I’m missing.
I have two tables with two parallel one-to-many relationships. I wish
to use the :finder_sql parameter to essentially ‘or’ the two foreign
keys.
What isn’t working for me is performing a ‘sub-search’.
Let’s say the tables are “stores” and “people,” and the relationships
are called “works_for” and “shops_at.”
I want to have a single “has_many” relationship that encompasses the
people who visit a store. Something like:
class Store < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :people,
:dependent => true,
:finder_sql => ‘SELECT DISTINCT p.*
FROM people p
WHERE (p.works_for_id = #{id} OR
p.shops_at_id = #{id})’,
:order => “updated_on DESC”
end
Meanwhile people is an STI:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class Employee < Person
belongs_to :store,
:foreign_key => ‘works_for_id’
end
class Shopper < Person
belongs_to :store,
:foreign_key => ‘shops_at_id’
end
This all seems to work for the common cases. For example, given an
instance of Store called macys, I can get its visitors with
macys.people.
However, this all goes badly when I try to perform a sub-search. What
I want are all of macy’s people that have been recently updated.
Something like:
macys.people.find_all :conditions => [‘updated_on >= ?’,
1.fortnights.ago]
What I get is all of the people at macys. It seems to ignore the
conditions.
I’ve tried :
macys.people.find :all, :conditions => [‘updated_on >= ?’,
1.fortnights.ago]
And I get an exception inside of association_proxy.rb
Anyways, that’s very long-winded. If we snip it all off, what I want
is to be able to add conditions to a relationship that has its own
:finder_sql.
Is there something else I should be doing?
Thanks in advance!
Reginald Braithwaite
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