On Nov 20, 1:26 am, turkan <[email protected]> wrote: > Guess what ... solved in Rails 3.0.3 :-) >
I'd say you're skating on thin ice: what's some_entity.created_by supposed to return: the foreign_key or an instance of User? Fred > On Nov 20, 2:12 am, turkan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Think of the following models: > > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > > has_many :created_entities, :class_name => "Entity", :foreign_key => > > "created_by" > > end > > > class Entity < ActiveRecord::Base > > belongs_to :created_by, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => > > "created_by" > > end > > > There is also a created_by integer field in the Entity migration. > > Everything seems to work fine with these model (fetching the > > association and so on), but when I try to serialize > > Entity.to_xml :include => :created_by (or include something other the > > model has as association) it fails (NoMethodError: undefined method > > `macro' for nil:NilClass). > > For full trace > > see:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4217923/nomethoderror-when-seriali... > > > But as soon as I rename the association in the Entity model to: > > belongs_to :creator, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => > > "created_by" > > the serialization to_xml start to work again. > > > Im using Rails 3.0.1. Can someone reproduce that? -- 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.
