I am trying to query for which parent (category) records DON'T have ha child record (post) with a given property (author.id).
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy
end
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
belong_to :category
end
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy
end
I am trying to find which categories an author has NEVER posted in. The idea is to get an array of categories that do not have posts by a GIVEN author, they can have OTHER posts...just not by the specific author
#author_unused_categories = #author.unused_categories
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
def unused_categories
categories = Categories.all
author_used_categories = Post.where(author_id: self.id).select(:category).uniq ??????
end
end
categories = Author.includes(posts: :category).select('category.id AS category_id').map(&:category_id)
unused_categories = Category.where.not(id: categories)
Related
class Package < ApplicationRecord
has_many :items
has_many :products, through: :items
end
class Item < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :package
belongs_to :product
end
class Products < ApplicationRecord
has_many :items
end
Is it possible to define associations so that after the relation is eager loaded, the list of records from joining table is filtered by the Package before accessing them from the Product side? Example:
last_package = Package.eager_load(:products).last
last_product = last_package.products.last
last_product.items
# here instead of getting the list of all items, that belong to the last_product
# I want to get only items, that belong to both last_package and last_product
IMPORTANT!
It should be a relation or a scope without arguments, I need it to for the GraphQL AssociationLoader.
Thanks in advance.
I have users table, books table and books_users join table. In the users_controller.rb I am trying extract the users who have filtered_books. Please help me to resolve that problem.
user.rb
has_many :books_users, dependent: :destroy
has_and_belongs_to_many :books, join_table: :books_users
book.rb
has_and_belongs_to_many :users
books_user.rb
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :book
users_controller.rb
def filter_users
#filtered_books = Fiction.find(params[:ID]).books
#users = **I want only those users who have filtered_books**
end
has_and_belongs_to_many does not actually use a join model. What you are looking for is has_many through:
class User < ApplicationRecord
has_many :book_users
has_many :books, through: :book_users
end
class Book < ApplicationRecord
has_many :book_users
has_many :users, through: :book_users
end
class BookUser < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :book
belongs_to :user
end
If you want to add categories to books you would do it by adding a Category model and another join table. Not by creating a Fiction model which will just create a crazy amount of code duplication if you want multiple categories.
class Book < ApplicationRecord
has_many :book_users
has_many :users, through: :book_users
has_many :book_categories
has_many :categories, through: :book_categories
end
class BookCategory < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :book
belongs_to :category
end
class Category < ApplicationRecord
has_many :book_categories
has_many :books, through: :book_categories
end
If you want to query for users that follow a certain book you can do it by using an inner join with a condition on books:
User.joins(:books)
.where(books: { title: 'Lord Of The Rings' })
If you want to get books that have a certain category:
Book.joins(:categories)
.where(categories: { name: 'Fiction' })
Then for the grand finale - to query users with a relation to at least one book that's categorized with "Fiction" you would do:
User.joins(books: :categories)
.where(categories: { name: 'Fiction' })
# or if you have an id
User.joins(books: :categories)
.where(categories: { id: params[:category_id] })
You can also add an indirect association that lets you go straight from categories to users:
class Category < ApplicationRecord
# ...
has_many :users, though: :books
end
category = Category.includes(:users)
.find(params[:id])
users = category.users
See:
The has_many :through Association
Joining nested assocations.
Specifying Conditions on Joined Tables
From looking at the code i am assuming that Book model has fiction_id as well because of the has_many association shown in this line Fiction.find(params[:ID]).books. There could be two approaches achieve this. First one could be that you use #filtered_books variable and extract users from it like #filtered_books.collect {|b| b.users}.flatten to extract all the users. Second approach could be through associations using fiction_id which could be something like User.joins(:books).where(books: {id: #filtererd_books.pluck(:id)})
I'm having trouble figuring out the proper way of retrieving all children of multiple parents through association chaining.
To simplify I have three models:
class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :invoices
end
class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :customer
has_many :line_items
end
class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :invoice
end
After creating a few objects I tired to use the example from rails guides (association basics: 4.3.3.4 includes):
Customer.first.invoices.line_items
It returns:
undefined method `line_items' for #<Customer::ActiveRecord_Associations_CollectionProxy
Is grandparent.parents.children not usable?
EDIT
I'm not searching for the grandparent.parents.first.children, but all children of all parents in the collection, rails guides state:
If you frequently retrieve line items directly from customers (#customer.orders.line_items),
As a valid operation, I would like to know if that is a mistake.
FINAL As stated in the comments of the selected answer: in ActiveRecord: scopes are chainable but associations are not.
The customer.invoices.line_items cannot work the way you want to, since the has_many always is linked to a single record. but you can achieve what you want (if I understand correctly) using has_many through
as follows:
class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :invoices
has_many :line_items, through: :invoices
end
class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :customer
has_many :line_items
end
class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :invoice
end
and now you can write:
customer.line_items
and it will return all line_items which are connected to a customer's invoices.
Customer.first.invoices.first.line_items
Or if you want all of the data together, you can do something like:
results = Customer.first.invoices.includes(:line_items)
Then you may access data with no DB call, by looping results. For first data ex: results.first.line_items
Hope it helps!
Customer.first.invoices will return an collection (like an array) of invoices. The line_items method isn't defined for a collection, but its defined for an invoice. Try Customer.first.invoices.first.line_items
EDIT - If you always want the orders to include the line items, you can just do:
class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :orders, -> { includes :line_items }
end
class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :customer
has_many :line_items
end
class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :order
end
my Post object has post_categories array
Post.post_categories = []
For my all Post object i need to filter posts by post_categories which include 1
like this
Post.all.where :post_categories.include? 1
how can i do
these are models
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :categorizes
has_many :post_categories, :through=>:categorizes
accepts_nested_attributes_for :post_categories
end
class PostCategory < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :categorizes
has_many :posts, :through=>:categorizes
end
class Categorize < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :post
belongs_to :post_category
end
You can use a join and filter on the ID field of the joined table:
Post.joins(:post_categories).where('post_categories.id' => 1)
I have a quite complicated relation between models and are now frustrated by a SQL Query to retrieve some objects.
given a Product model connected to a category model via a has_many :through association and a joint table categorization.
Also a User model connected to this category model via a has_many :through association and a joint table *category_friendship*.
I am now facing the problem to retrieve all products, which are within the categories of the array user.category_ids. However, I can't just not manage to write the WHERE statement properly.
I tried this:
u = User.first
uc = u.category_ids
Product.where("category_id IN (?)", uc)
However this won't work, as it doesn't have a category_id in the product table directly. But how can I change this to use the joint table categorizations?
I'm giving you the model details, maybe you find it helpful for answering my question:
Product.rb
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :category
def self.from_users_or_categories_followed_by(user)
cf = user.category_ids
uf = user.friend_ids
where("user_id IN (?)", uf) # Products out of friend_ids (uf) works fine, but how to extend to categories (cf) with an OR clause?
end
Category.rb
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :categorizations
has_many :products, through: :categorizations
has_many :category_friendships
has_many :users, through: :category_friendships
Categorization.rb
class Categorization < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :category
belongs_to :product
Category_friendship.rb
class CategoryFriendship < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :category
User.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :category_friendships
has_many :categories, through: :category_friendships
def feed
Product.from_users_or_categories_followed_by(self) #this should aggregate the Products
end
If you need more details to answer, please feel free to ask!
Looking at the associations you have defined and simplifying things. Doing a bit refactoring in what we have to achieve.
Product.rb
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :category
end
User.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :categories, through: :category_friendships
scope :all_data , includes(:categories => [:products])
def get_categories
categories
end
def feed
all_products = Array.new
get_categories.collect {|category| category.get_products }.uniq
end
end
Category.rb
class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :users, through: :category_friendships
has_many :products
def get_products
products
end
end
NO NEED OF CREATING CATEGORY_FRIENDSHIP MODEL ONLY A JOIN TABLE IS NEEDED WITH NAME CATEGORIES_FRIENSHIPS WHICH WILL JUST HAVE USER_ID AND CATEGORY_ID
USAGE: UPDATED
Controller
class UserController < ApplicationController
def index
#all_user_data = User.all_data
end
end
view index.html.erb
<% for user in #all_user_data %>
<% for products in user.feed %>
<% for product in products %>
<%= product.name %>
end
end
end
I've upvoted Ankits answer but I realized there is a more elegant way of handeling this:
given:
u = User.first
uc = u.category_ids
then I can retrieve the products out of the categories by using:
products = Product.joins(:categories).where('category_id IN (?)', uc)