On 14 July 2011 16:03, joanne ta <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: >> In Language, you have "belongs_to :name" (which is really Phrase), and >> belongs_to :phrase. So you need a phrase_id field, and a name_id field >> - one for each of the relationships. > > belongs_to phrase, I add it because the languageTest is complaining there is > no association with phrase. > so that i added it to language model
If you don't want it, take it out. Change the "name" field to "name_id" for all our sakes.... >> In Phrase, you "has_many :languages", but language doesn't yet have a >> phrase_id field. Or did you mean for this has_many to point at the >> name_id field as foreign key? > > yes. I want to point the name_id as foreign key of phrase > one phrase(id) can have many language (name_id/phrase_id) So do that then (how's Rails supposed to know that you've decided for no reason not to use "phrase_id" as the foreign key field in Language?!): has_many :languages, :foreign_key => :name_id -- 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.
