I have three models: Store, Author, Books
Store has many Authors which has many Books.
What is the cleanest way to get a collection of all the books at the store?
This works:
#store.authors.collect{|a| a.books}.flatten
Is there something in Active Record that I'm missing that makes this cleaner?
Jake
This may work...
class Store < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :authors
# I used :uniq because a book can have more than one author, and without
# the :uniq you'd have duplicated books when using #store.books
has_many :books, :through => :authors, :uniq => true
end
class Author < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :books
end
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :author
end
With this code you can use #store.books...
What you want is has_many through. It works like this:
# in store.rb
has_many :authors
has_many :books, :through => :authors
# in author.rb
belongs_to :store
has_many :books
# in book.rb
belongs_to :author
Now you can say #store.books and it should just work.
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In my Rails 6 app I have these models:
class Account < ApplicationRecord
has_many :carriers
has_many :clients
# Unfortunately, these two don't work together. I have to uncomment one of them to get the other one to work:
has_many :people, :through => :carriers # works but omits clients
has_many :people, :through => :clients # works but omits carriers
end
class Carrier < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :account
has_many :people, :as => :personalizable
end
class Client < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :account
has_many :people, :as => :personalizable
end
class Person < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :personalizable, :polymorphic => true
end
How can I access an account's carriers and clients in one query?
I would love to do something like account.people to show all the account's people but haven't found a way to achieve that yet.
How can it be done?
You cannot use same method name for two associations instead you can rename it as carrier_people and client_people and eager load both.
class Account < ApplicationRecord
has_many :carriers
has_many :clients
has_many :carrier_people, :through => :carriers, source: :people # works but omits clients
has_many :client_people, :through => :clients, source: :people # works but omits carriers
end
You can eager load like this.
Account.includes(:carrier_people, :client_people)
I searched for quite a long time and couldnt find that problem.
user.erb
has_many :workouts
has_many :result_units
workout.erb
belongs_to :user
has_many :sets
set.erb
belongs_to :workout
has_one :result_unit
result_unit.erb
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :set
1 possible Solution is that ResultUnit dont belong to User. But the question is then how much performance it will cost to query User.workouts.all.sets.all.resultunits.all
How could i create a new ResultUnit for User and Set?
This is a case for using a has_many :through association.
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-has-many-through-association
Running User.workouts.all.sets.all.resultunits.all will result in numerous queries being executed. A has_many :through however, will execute only a single query and allow the database to optimize the joins between tables.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :workouts
has_many :sets, through: :workouts
has_many :result_units, through: :sets
end
Ok, I didn't understand your problem 100%.. but I'm gonna have a stab at it and feel free to downvote if it's not right.
class User
has_many :workouts
has_many :result_units
has_many :sets, through: :workouts
# User.first.workouts
# User.first.result_units
# User.first.sets
end
class Workout
belongs_to :user
has_many :sets
# Workout.first.user
# Workout.first.sets
end
class ResultUnit
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :set
# ResultUnit.first.user
# ResultUnit.first.set
end
class Sets
belongs_to :workout
has_one :result_unit
# Set.first.workout
# Set.first.result_unit
end
I've got a Person who can be linked to many Structures (structure is polymorphic)
I've got a Venue, who can have many People, as a structure.
I've got a Journal, who can have many People, as a structure.
Here is my modelization :
class Venue < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :structure_people, :as => :structure
has_many :people, :through => :structure_people
end
class Journal < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :structure_people, :as => :structure
has_many :people, :through => :structure_people
end
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :structure_people
has_many :structures, :through => :structure_people
end
class StructurePerson < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :structure, polymorphic: true
belongs_to :person
end
My problem :
when i try to get people on a Venue or on a Journal, it works. Cool :)
BUT
when i try to get structures on a person, i've got an error :
ActiveRecord::HasManyThroughAssociationPolymorphicSourceError: Cannot have a has_many :through association 'Person#structures' on the polymorphic object 'Structure#structure'.
Anyone could help me to solve this ?
Thanks a lot.
Christophe
I think it's a restriction of Rails, because has_many association will guess a class_name automatically. But polymorphic association may returns multiple class_name. Do you mind use this:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :structure_people
has_many :venues, :through => :structure_people
#Journal is the same.
end
class StructurePerson < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :structure, polymorphic: true
belongs_to :venue, :foreign_key => 'structure_id', :conditions => {:structure_type => 'Venue'}
belongs_to :person
end
Although it is an ugly solution...
I think you can choose an alternative way.
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :structure_people
def structures
structure_people.map(&:structure)
end
end
You can't get chaining function of has_many, but you can get polymorphic structures :)
I have 3 models: User, Object, Likes
Currently, I have the model: a user has many Objects. How do I go about modeling:
1) A user can like many objects
2) an Object can have many likes (from different users)
So I want to be able to do something like this:
User.likes = list of objects liked by a user
Objects.liked_by = list of Users liked by object
The model below is definitely wrong...
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :objects
has_many :objects, :through => :likes
end
class Likes < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :object
end
class Objects < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :users
has_many :users, :through => :likes
end
To elaborate further on my comment to Brandon Tilley's answer, I would suggest the following:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# your original association
has_many :things
# the like associations
has_many :likes
has_many :liked_things, :through => :likes, :source => :thing
end
class Like < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :thing
end
class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
# your original association
belongs_to :user
# the like associations
has_many :likes
has_many :liking_users, :through => :likes, :source => :user
end
You are close; to use a :through, relation, you first must set up the relationship you're going through:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :likes
has_many :objects, :through => :likes
end
class Likes < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :object
end
class Objects < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :likes
has_many :users, :through => :likes
end
Note that Objects should has_many :likes, so that the foreign key is in the right place. (Also, you should probably use the singular form Like and Object for your models.)
Here is a simple method to achieve this. Basically, you can create as many relationships as needed as long as you specify the proper class name using the :class_name option. However, it is not always a good idea, so make sure only one is used during any given request, to avoid additional queries.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :likes, :include => :obj
has_many :objs
has_many :liked, :through => :likes, :class_name => 'Obj'
end
class Like < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :obj
end
class Obj < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
has_many :likes, :include => :user
has_many :users, :through => :likes
# having both belongs to and has many for users may be confusing
# so it's better to use a different name
has_many :liked_by, :through => :likes, :class_name => 'User'
end
u = User.find(1)
u.objs # all objects created by u
u.liked # all objects liked by u
u.likes # all likes
u.likes.collect(&:obj) # all objects liked by u
o = Obj.find(1)
o.user # creator
o.users # users who liked o
o.liked_by # users who liked o. same as o.users
o.likes # all likes for o
o.likes.collect(&:user)
Models & associations as per naming conventions of rails modeling
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :likes
has_many :objects, :through => :likes
end
class Like < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :object
end
class Object < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
has_many :likes
has_many :users, :through => :likes
end
Also, you can use of already built-in gems like acts-as-taggable-on to have same functionality without code :)
I have a situation where I have Products, Suppliers, ShoppingLists and Valuations.
A shopping_list consist of many valuations each with a product, an specific supplier and a price.
My models are as follows:
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :valuations
has_many :shopping_lists, :through => :valuations
end
class Supplier < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :valuations
has_many :shopping_lists, :through => :valuations
end
class ShoppingList < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :valuations
has_many :products, :through => :valuations
has_many :suppliers, :through => :valuations
end
class Valuation < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :product
belongs_to :supplier
belongs_to :shopping_list
end
My routes.rb is:
map.resources :shopping_lists do |shopping_list|
shopping_list.resources :valuations
end
map.resources :product
map.resources :supplier
I wonder if this could be the best solution, anyway what I want is that the user can create as many lists as he wish, each with several valuations.
The first time a shopping list is created its also filled with one valuation at least. Then, the user can add/remove valuations to/from the shopping_list.
I would like a simple and elegant solution, without Ajax callbacks.
What is the best way to do this, from the controllers/views/routes perspectives?
Or should I completley change my schema ?
Thanks!
Just found two excelent resources from Ryan Bates:
http://asciicasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-part-1
http://asciicasts.com/episodes/197-nested-model-form-part-2
Let's see if that do the job!
// UPDATE: Worked great!