On 19 October 2010 21:29, Greg Willits <[email protected]> wrote: > Colin Law wrote in post #955556: >> 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 > > My existing schema does not match the example laid out here: > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-has_many-through-association > > I do not have one table capable of pointing in parallel to two tables as > diagramed. The schema I am working with is strictly A->B->C and not > A->B and A->C.
It is unfortunate that the guide does not have a diagram for the situation you describe as it is a very common case. It is described in the text just below but there is no diagram to draw one's attention to it. Colin -- 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.
