#1117 ✓resolved
Austin Bales

Problem with named relationships.

Reported by Austin Bales | November 9th, 2009 @ 05:19 AM

I've been experiencing many problems while trying to create a system of Mailers that are owned by a Person and have many People.

After trying several different approaches and not being entirely certain about the validaty of any of them, http://gist.github.com/229865 seems to describe the issue the best.

People have many Mailers (senders)
Mailers belongs to a Person (potentially people if that worked)
Mailers have many People (recipients)

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Dan Kubb (dkubb)

    Dan Kubb (dkubb) November 9th, 2009 @ 02:03 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “resolved”

    When you're doing m:m with a custom name you need to specify the intermediary model and relationships explicitly, eg:

    http://gist.github.com/230179

    If you follow the DM defaults, and just use "has n, :mailers, :through => Resource" inside Person, the explicit intermediary model can be removed, and the relationship in Mailer can become "has n, :people, :through => Resource" too.

  • Dan Kubb (dkubb)

    Dan Kubb (dkubb) November 9th, 2009 @ 02:03 PM

    • Assigned user set to “Dan Kubb (dkubb)”
  • Austin Bales

    Austin Bales November 9th, 2009 @ 02:39 PM

    Thanks Dan,

    So, using what you said above, I can created custom relationship and a default relationship at the same time: as seen http://gist.github.com/230255.

    Thanks to you and dbussink for all the help!

  • Austin Bales

    Austin Bales November 9th, 2009 @ 05:40 PM

    Okay, so the stranger part of the problem re-appeared.

    If I create two people:

    Person.create(:name => "Austin")
    Person.create(:name => "John")
    Person.create(:name => "John")

    Mailer.create(:person => Person.first, :people => Person.all(:name => John))
    Mailer.create(:person => Person.first, :people => Person.all(:name => John))

    Mailer.first().person # Austin
    Mailer.get(2).person # John, What!??!

    Is this because of the overlap of person and people? How can I fix it?

  • Austin Bales

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