Rails 1.2.2 HABTM error?

Hi. I have the following models:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :rooms
end

class Room < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :users
end

And the test:

require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/test_helper’

class RoomTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

def test_habtm
u1 = User.create
u2 = User.create

r1 = Room.create
r2 = Room.create

r1.users << u1
r1.users << u2
r2.users << u2

end
end

Running “rake test” results in the failure:

  1. Error:
    test_habtm(RoomTest):
    ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry ‘2’ for
    key 1: INSERT INTO rooms_users (id, user_id, room_id) VALUES (2,
    2, 2)

The problem is, that Rails for some reason sets the “id” of the
rooms_users record to 2, rather than letting MySQL autoincrement
handle it.

Is this an error or am I missing something? Thanks.

Morten

On Feb 12, 6:15 pm, “Morten” [email protected] wrote:

  1. Error:
    test_habtm(RoomTest):
    ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Duplicate entry ‘2’ for
    key 1: INSERT INTO rooms_users (id, user_id, room_id) VALUES (2,
    2, 2)

The problem is, that Rails for some reason sets the “id” of the
rooms_users record to 2, rather than letting MySQL autoincrement
handle it.

Remove the id column from your join table and all will be well. Rails
doesn’t like surrogate keys on join tables, unless you model the join.

Ciao,
Sheldon.