Hi,

Rails is complaining about a missing school_class_user association in
School model.
I would recommend to add one:
has_many :school_class_users

Same might be necessary on the other side of through association.

--
Volker



On 29 Jan., 08:50, Soren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Progress
>
> All my ordinary associations seems to be correct with both direction
> of the associations.
>
> I discovered a great tools for debugging and/or 
> documentation:http://blog.zmok.net/articles/2006/11/13/visualize-your-rails-schema
> Looks like one could morph this into an association checking tool some
> rainy day.
>
> It found a couple of things, but I keep focusing on this set of
> associations:
>   belongs_to :first_contact,
>     :foreign_key => :first_contact_id,
>     :class_name => "User"
>     :conditions => "users.role = 'classco'"
>
>   belongs_to :second_contact,
>     :foreign_key => :second_contact_id,
>     :class_name => "User"
>     :conditions => "users.role = 'classco'"
>
> Rather than just two associations to the users model to model the
> various contacts to each class, the right thing to do would be to have
> a has_many :through association. This way I can have as many contacts
> as my users might deem that they need.
>
> So I changed this to:
>   has_many :contacts,
>     :class_name => "User",
>     :through => "school_class_user"
>
> models/school_class_user.rb contains:
> class SchoolClassUser < ActiveRecord::Base
>
>   belongs_to :school_class
>   belongs_to :user
>
> end
>
> and models/user.rb has gotten a statement like this as well:
>   has_many :school_classes, :through => :school_classes_users
>
> There is a database named school_class_user to link to the new model.
>
> When I try this code I get this error message from AR:
>
> Could not find the association "school_class_user" in model
> SchoolClass
>
> I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong but just can not see what -
> can anyone help ?
>
> Also - is there something that look bothersome from an AS perspective.
>
> /S
>
> On Jan 28, 7:39 am, Soren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > class SchoolClassesController < ApplicationController
>
> >   layout "default"
>
> >   before_filter :login_required
>
> >   #This links to the update_table_config method further down
> >   before_filter :update_table_config
>
> >   # Only list the lowest level that is required to have access
> >   # all levels above that is already included
>
> >   before_filter :cc_required, :except =>
> > [:classlist_student, :classlist, :classlist_teachers, :classlist_cc, :list, 
> > :update_table, :show, :row, :show_search, :bellschedule, :calendar, :staff, 
> > :cc_report, :jobs ]
>
> >   active_scaffold :school_class do |config|
> >     config.columns =
> > [:name, :grade_printable, :sorting_group, :teachers, :ias, :first_contact, 
> > :second_contact, :room, :phone]
>
> >     config.label = "Classes"
> >     config.list.sorting = [{ :sorting_group => :asc},{:room => :asc}]
> >     config.action_links.add 'classlist',
> >                         :label => "Class List",
> >                         :type => :record,
> >                         :inline => false
>
> >     config.columns[:grade].label = "internal grade"
> >     config.columns[:grade].description = "Set to negative value to
> > remove from class listings"
> >     config.columns[:grade_printable].label = "Grade"
> >     config.columns[:first_contact].label = "Class Coordinator"
> >     config.columns[:second_contact].label = "Class Coordinator"
>
> >     # This works with staff
> >     config.columns[:teachers].label = "Teacher(s)"
> >     config.columns[:ias].label = "Instructional Assistant(s)"
>
> >     config.actions.swap :search, :live_search
>
> >     list.per_page = 30
>
> >     # Add the new report functions to the system
> >     if Konfig::KLASS_ALLERGY
> >       config.action_links.add 'allergy',
> >         :label => "Allergy Report",
> >         :type => :record,
> >         :inline => false,
> >         :security_method => :allergy_authorized?
> >     end
>
> >     # Stripped 5 other functions out - they are almost identical to
> > the one above.
>
> >   # This logic limits the users listed in the users/list view
> >   # Can be used in any controller to control what happens to the
> > records
> >   # shown in the List view
> >   # Do 
> > check:http://wiki.activescaffold.com/wiki/published/Dynamic+conditions_for_...
> >   # THIS IS IN SQL SYNTAX !!!!!!!!
> >   #['generic IN (?)', ['false']]
> >   def conditions_for_collection
> >       if !current_user.has_role?('user')
> >       [""]
> >     else
> >         if Konfig::SHOW_GENERIC
> >           ['generic = true']
> >         else
> >           ['generic = false']
> >         end
> >     end
> >   end
>
> >   # Logic to include the generic field in the update editor
> >   def update_table_config
> >     if not current_user.nil?
> >       if current_user.has_role?('user')
> >         active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :generic
> >         active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :grade_printable
> >         active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :grade
> >         active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :sorting_group
> >       else
> >         if current_user.has_role?('admin')
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.add :generic
> >           active_scaffold_config.create.columns.add :generic
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.add :generic
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.add :grade_printable
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.add :grade_printable
> >           active_scaffold_config.create.columns.add :grade_printable
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.add :grade
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.add :grade
> >           active_scaffold_config.create.columns.add :grade
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.add :sorting_group
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.add :sorting_group
> >           active_scaffold_config.create.columns.add :sorting_group
> >         else
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.exclude :generic
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :generic
>
> > active_scaffold_config.update.columns.exclude :grade_printable
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :grade_printable
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.exclude :grade
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :grade
> >           active_scaffold_config.update.columns.exclude :sorting_group
> >           active_scaffold_config.list.columns.exclude :sorting_group
> >         end
> >       end
> >     end
> >   end
>
> > The association parts from school_classes model is a posted earlier in
> > this thread
>
> > /S
>
> > On Jan 27, 2:51 am, JSeidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > It's an Active Record method:
> > > From api.rubyonrails.org:
> > > klass()
>
> > > Returns the class for the macro. For example,
> > > composed_of :balance, :class_name => ‘Money‘ returns the Money class
> > > and has_many :clients returns the Client class.
>
> > > [ hide source ]
>
> > >      # File vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb,
> > > line 105
> > > 105:       def klass
> > > 106:         @klass ||= class_name.constantize
> > > 107:       end
>
> > > ...jon
>
> > > On Jan 25, 11:29 pm, Soren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I have a large fairly complex system and I have ended up with a error
> > > > surrounding the associations between the models.
>
> > > > Unfortunately the error message is not very clear to me. Can anyone
> > > > help ?
>
> > > > I have a model/controller pair named klass/klasses. Is this a reserved
> > > > word and therefore the source of the problem ?
>
> > > > You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> > > > The error occurred while evaluating nil.klass
>
> > > > RAILS_ROOT: /rails/formdir-dev
> > > > Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
>
> > > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
> > > > reflection.rb:257:in `source_reflection'
> > > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
> > > > reflection.rb:257:in `collect'
> > > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
> > > > reflection.rb:257:in `source_reflection'
> > > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
> > > > reflection.rb:316:in `derive_class_name'
> > > > /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
> > > > reflection.rb:112:in `class_name'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/extensions/
> > > > reverse_associations.rb:11:in `reverse'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/active_scaffold/
> > > > data_structures/column.rb:117:in `autolink?'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/
> > > > active_scaffold.rb:107:in `links_for_associations'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/active_scaffold/
> > > > data_structures/columns.rb:62:in `each'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/active_scaffold/
> > > > data_structures/columns.rb:62:in `each'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/
> > > > active_scaffold.rb:106:in `links_for_associations'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/lib/
> > > > active_scaffold.rb:59:in `active_scaffold'
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/app/controllers/users_controller.rb:16
> > > > /rails/formdir-dev/app/controllers/user_logins_controller.rb:9

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