belongs_to :through definitely is not necessary just like has_many :through is not necessary and wasn't even included in earlier releases of Rails. With Rails 3, creating scopes that are lazily loaded provides a lot of functionality that would be nice to extend to the belongs_to :through relationship.
On Nov 5, 2:18 pm, Tim Shaffer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 1:13 pm, TomRossi7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why is belongs_to :through not an option with Rails? I'm sure there > > is something I'm missing! I find myself wanting it more now with lazy > > loading in Rails 3. > > > project belongs_to client > > > task belongs_to project > > task belongs_to client :through project > > belongs_to :through is not necessary, which is why it's not an option. > > So you are saying your tables would look like this: > > TASK > name > project_id > > PROJECT > name > client_id > > CLIENT > name > > And you would like to be able to find all tasks for a given client? > > In that case, you would say client has_many :tasks, :through > => :project > > Then instead of "Task.joins(:project => :client)" You can do > "Client.find_by_name('asdf').tasks" -- 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.
