At the ruby level, type is an alias of class, too (sorta), so it's gonna have some major issues with that word.
Sent from my iPhone On 30/01/2009, at 4:20 AM, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 'type' is used by ActiveRecord to indicate Single Table Inheritance. > > That's probably tripping you up (esp. since changing the name > eliminates the issue) > > On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Rasmus Nielsen wrote: > >> >> Hi there, >> >> I have a Item-model that belongs to the ItemType-model. This works >> fine: >> >> class Item < ActiveRecord::Base >> belongs_to :item_type >> end >> >> However, if I rewrite this to: >> >> class Item < ActiveRecord::Base >> belongs_to :type, :class_name => "ItemType" >> end >> >> ... i get the following in the console: >>>> Item.first.type >> => nil >> >> When looking at my log I can see that no query are sent to the >> db-server. This does not work: >> class Item < ActiveRecord::Base >> belongs_to :blah, :class_name => "ItemType" >> end >> >> However, this does: >> class Item < ActiveRecord::Base >> belongs_to :item_type, :class_name => "ItemType" # I know this does >> not make sense >> end >> >> Can anybody explain what's going on there? Ultimately I would like >> to be >> able to write Item.find(x).type. >> >> Thanks in advance! :-) >> >> - Rasmus >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
