Help with extensions

Rails
1

I am working with extensions to has_many associations, and I want to
create
a finder method that is conditional on the attributes of the object
whose
association I’m working with.

So, to use the example from the Agile Web D.: the authors show
on
pg 340 in the second edition how to pass an argument to a finder method.
But
I want to know if it’s possible to instead have the finder method look
at
attributes of the object on which the finder method is ultimately being
executed (here, user) to determine the conditions.

class User

has_many :reading
has_many :articles, :through => :readings do
def rated_at_or_above(rating) # this is the finder
method in AWD – works fine
find :all, :conditions => [‘rating >= ?’, rating]
end
def rated_at_or_above_threshold # but can I do
something
like this? (doesn’t work)
find :all, :conditions => [‘rating >= ?’, user.threshold] #
NoMethodError: undefined method user for Article:class
end
end
end

How would I implement this? As the error suggests, the problem is that
the
article doesn’t know who its user is. So how can I pass that information
to
this method, given that it’s nested inside of this association?

Thanks.

(Btw, I tried to post this yesterday but it has not appeared, and
another
msg suggested that posts made from the Google G. page get lost
sometimes
– sorry if this is double-posted.)

2

Andy E. wrote:

class User

has_many :reading
has_many :articles, :through => :readings do
def rated_at_or_above(rating) # this is the finder
method in AWD – works fine
find :all, :conditions => [‘rating >= ?’, rating]
end
def rated_at_or_above_threshold # but can I do
something
like this? (doesn’t work)
find :all, :conditions => [‘rating >= ?’, user.threshold] #
NoMethodError: undefined method user for Article:class
end
end
end

How would I implement this? As the error suggests, the problem is that
the
article doesn’t know who its user is. So how can I pass that information
to
this method, given that it’s nested inside of this association?

The code in an association extension is executed in the context of the
AssociationProxy object, not the ActiveRecord model. Simply put, that
means that “self” in the extension isn’t the user, it’s the has_many
proxy. But proxy_owner points to the user, so you can do
proxy_owner.threshold to get the user’s threshold.

–
Josh S.
http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/

3

Thanks for this – exactly what I was looking for. .

Andy

On Jan 31, 11:47 am, Josh S. [email protected]