A while back, I had some doubts on the use of associations. I still
haven’t got a satisfactory guidance so that I can spring ahead with the
project. I am trying to understand from a ruby point of view on doing
things. Basically I have a controller that gives me a list of students.
And each student may have say home address and mailing address. Hence I
can model as shown below. How do I get the list of addresses other than
using the for loop inside the another controller that should display
addresses belong to the selected student along with the associated other
information about the student? If I need to display the home address in
the top of the rhtml page and say mailing address in the bottom of the
page with other information in the middle, if we put a for loop inside
the rhtml, it might look like a spaghetti code that I am not in very
favour.
class Student < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :addresses
…
end
class Address < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :student
…
end
Some time back when I asked this question, Joshua was very kind enough
to follow this pattern. Unfortunately even after reading the api’s I
still haven’t got it registered!!
@student = Student.find(params[:id])
@addrs = @student.addresses
@address = @addrs.build(params[:address]) # and so on…
I am sure that this is very trivial for the folks in this forum. Please
help me out…
Thanks
Silvy Mathews
Check out the docs on ActiveRecord associations, specifically has_many.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethod
s.html