Thanks for the hint.

Looks like the choice of class name school_class is not very good as
it causes the has_many :through association to be confused about how
to derive the table name.
Will fix the name to be schoolclass so we can avoid that part of the
problem.

/S


On Jan 29, 12:11 am, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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