On 19 October 2010 21:06, Greg Willits <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaa has_many Bbb and Bbb has_many Ccc. There is no :through involved. > Ccc table does not have a FK back to Aaa. (Legacy schema.)
I do not understand what you mean by 'there is no through involved'. In the situation described you may say Aaa :has_many :cccs, :through => :bbbs then you may use aaa.cccs Colin > > An instance of aaa can easily query with aaa.bbb.find (or .paginate), > but aaa.bbb.ccc.paginate() doesn't work because Aaa has no knowledge of > Ccc. > > What's the idiomatic way of dealing with this? Loop through > aaa.bbb.paginate results and generate N queries for Ccc and flatten the > array? Seems too brutish. > > Not finding great answers via Google, everyone seems to do has_many > :through, and that just doesn't apply here. > > Oh -- Rails 3, but using WillPaginate. If there's a paginate() > compatible way to do this, I need that. Second choice would be to use an > AR3 way to do it that won't work with paginate(), and I can hack my own > pagination. > > TIA for pointers. > > -- gw > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
