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Wednesday, March 10, 2010


[Rails] Re: belongs_to :through

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Joaquin Rivera padron wrote:
>> hi there,
>> lets say you have: A that belongs_to :b, and B belongs_to :c
>>
>> how do you normally go about saying A belongs_to :c, :through => :b ??
>
> If A belongs_to :b, that means that Rails expects a b_id field in A's
> table. In your case, that doesn't exist, so what you want is
> A has_one :c, :through => :b

Wow, that was stupid of me. I must not have been awake when I wrote
that. has_one :through will probably work, but my explanation is
totally inaccurate. Sorry.

>
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> marnen@marnen.org

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