Iâ??m following along a few tutorials on the web and trying to implement
my own example, but I must be missing something because I canâ??t get
has_many or belongs_to to work like I expected. now I have watched all
the videos and made a cookbook several times with different interfaces.
what I’m looking for is not a code snippet to solve something (because
I already have that), I’m looking for a deeper understanding of what’s
going on. most of the examples I see on the net mix functionality with
UI so it’s difficult to see what part is a “here we get data” and what
part is “here we format data”
anyway…
Hereâ??s the setup:
CREATE DATABASE rpms_development ;
use rpms_development;
CREATE TABLE packages (
id INT( 255 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
name VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
version VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
group_id INT( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
notes TEXT NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( id )
) TYPE = innodb;
CREATE TABLE groups (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
name VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( id )
) TYPE = innodb;
INSERT INTO groups (name) values (“Development”);
INSERT INTO groups (name) values (“Test”);
INSERT INTO groups (name) values (“Live”);
INSERT INTO packages (name, version, group_id, notes) values
(“packageA”, “1”, “1”, “dev package 1”);
INSERT INTO packages (name, version, group_id, notes) values
(“packageA”, “1”, “2”, “test package 1”);
INSERT INTO packages (name, version, group_id, notes) values
(“packageA”, “1”, “3”, “live package 1”);
rails rpms
cd rpms
script/generate scaffold group
script/generate scaffold package
script/server&
http://localhost:3000/packages
notice there is no group_id column. Why?
Ok so moving on to the association, docs say I need to associate groups
and packages
CREATE TABLE groups_packages (
id INT( 255 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
group_id INT( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
package_id INT( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( id )
) TYPE = innodb;
class Group < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :packages
end
class Package < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :group
end
now the default scaffold list.rhtml has
<% for column in Package.content_columns %>
<%=h package.send(column.name) %>
<% end %>
this wonâ??t show the group_id
but this will
<% @packages.each do |package| %>
<%= link_to package.name, :action => "show", :id => package.id %> <%= package.group.name %> <%= package.name %>Questions:
what bit of insight am I missing here to understand why the group_id
column wonâ??t showup under a for loop
and
after making an association, what frameworks exist to use that
association in the scaffold? I thought the point of the rails framework
was to see that I had a column and do something with it?
thanks
-zaq