Is this something you'd like to maintain automatically, or just do once? You remember how to use the console (if the latter)?
Picture.find_each do |pic| pic.update caption: pic.item.caption end If you want to do it every time you save a new picture, then you can add a similar helper to the Picture model, and call it in a before_save callback: def cache_caption self.caption = item.caption end before_save :cache_caption Walter > On Sep 14, 2019, at 4:45 AM, fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a table of items and a table a pictures table They relate to each > other through an item_pictures table having model name item_picture All my > items have titles but I just added captions to my pictures table and now I > wanna update all the records in pictures to set the captions column to the > value of each picture's item's title > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/c5a41104-770c-48ba-abc9-450e4e1096f5%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/8113E780-69A3-4222-8AF7-2D7F30401CEB%40wdstudio.com.
