This may seem like a real simple question, but do associations work both ways?
I have a user model with, has_many :posts I have a post model with, belongs_to :user My posts controller has @posts = Post.all and my view does a '@posts.each do |post|' loop In that loop, can I do: <td><% post.user %></td> ...to give me back the user that made that post? In the rails console I can do user.posts (that gives me all the posts a user has made) but I can't do post.user (to give me the user). I can do post.user_id which gives me the user_id, but I want their name not their user_id - perhaps with something like post.user.name :/ Am I doing something wrong? I thought one of the benefits of associations like this was so we wouldn't have to do separate queries? Sorry if this is a silly question - I'm a Rails nube. Thanks in advance! -- 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.
