Thanks for the advices Matt do you mean that I should use relationship.related_person=Person.new instead of changing the foreign key directly If so, is that a general requirement when updating foreign keys ?
Andrew How do I avoid the caching/stale record process I have tried to make an extra save for all involved object but did not change anything On 22 Juni, 13:29, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 21, 4:27 am, Hans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a self-referential relationship, as described in > > this great video > > -http://railscasts.com/episodes/163-self-referential-association > > - and it's mostly working, but not entirely. > > > My self-referential relationship describes relationships between > > people using the foreign keys person and related_person in class > > Relationship both associating to the class Person > > > My problem is that when I update related_person_id for a specific > > relationship the associated object relationship.related_person is not > > updated. Related_person_id in relationship has an updated value, > > while relationship.related_person.id has the old value. > > What is wrong in my declarations ?? > > Nothing, but updating the related_person_id field is the problem. > You'll typically want to update the relationship with an object > (assigning to related_person). > > --Matt Jones -- 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.
