Sari,
I got the list display working without doing an explicit find.
It took a bit of a conceptual convulution to get it to work. I was
thinking of it has Many Cases have One status.
There is no support for Many-to-One so I was a bit stumped.
Then I realized you just have to turn around your thinking to say One
Status has Many Cases. Thus it is a One-to-Many relationship. That
is descriped on page 234 of the book.
Below is a list of what I did in my code.
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- I changed the name of the field “status_id” in the cases table to
“case_status_id”
Then fixed the error this caused in case_controller.rb by simply
changing the name of the status_id field reference.
I did the same name change in app/view/case/list.rhtml, but then I
modified that line later anyway.
I’m sure I missed a bunch I was just trying to get a proof of concept
working.
- I added a “belongs_to :case_status” line to the app/models/case.rb
file.
Thus rails now thinks that status is the master table and case is a
detail table. Sort of strange but I think that is actually correct.
(ie. Each Status (One) has multiple Cases (Many) as detail records!!!)
We probably should add “has_many :cases” to the case_status model as
well. I did not need that for the below to work, but it is part of
what is describe on page 234.
-
I edited the app/view/case/list.rhtml file to replace
<%=h CaseStatus.find(a_case.status_id).status %>
with
<%=h a_case.case_status.status %>
Now that this is done, you should be able to use
“a_case.case_status.active” as well in the controller.
Hope that helps
Greg
Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century