Apparently I assumed functionality that doesn't exist for this association. Should I not be able to reference the target model as an attribute?
Here are my models: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :membership has_one :role, :through => :membership end class Membership < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user belongs_to :role end class Role < ActiveRecord::Base end But, the "role" attribute for an instance of User always contains nil: >> user = User.new => #<User id: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> >> user.save! => true >> membership = user.create_membership => #<Membership id: 1, user_id: 1, role_id: nil, created_at: "2009-05-20 05:40:1 7", updated_at: "2009-05-20 05:40:17"> >> role = membership.create_role => #<Role id: 1, created_at: "2009-05-20 05:40:33", updated_at: "2009-05-20 05:4 0:33"> >> user.membership => #<Membership id: 1, user_id: 1, role_id: 1, created_at: "2009-05-20 05:40:17" , updated_at: "2009-05-20 05:40:17"> >> user.membership.role => #<Role id: 1, created_at: "2009-05-20 05:40:33", updated_at: "2009-05-20 05:4 0:33"> >> user.role => nil >> quit Why does user.membership.role contain a record, but user.role does not? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
