Chris & Kevin,

Thank you. Of course it works. 

Ephraim

On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 3:20:08 PM UTC-7, Chris McCann wrote:
>
> Ephraim,
>
> If you want to get all the :microposts for a :selection you have to define 
> the association in that direction.
>
> You have Micropost belongs_to :selection, but you don't have Selection 
> has_many :microposts.  You don't automatically get a two-way association by 
> just defining one end.  So add has_many :microposts to Selection.
>
> You don't show your User model, but I suspect the issue with u.microposts 
> is the same -- you have to add User has_many :microposts, since you have 
> Micropost belongs_to :user.
>
> Let us know if that fixes it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 3:10:09 PM UTC-7, Ephraim Feig wrote:
>>
>>  I have an application that creates microposts under categories and 
>> subcategories (which I call selections). The user can write in two fields, 
>> the category field and the selection field. My models are:
>>
>>
>> class Micropost < ActiveRecord::Base
>>   attr_accessible :content, :category_content, :selection_content, 
>> :category_id, :selection_id, :user_id
>>
>>   belongs_to :user
>>   belongs_to :category
>>   belongs_to :selection
>>
>>   validates :user_id, presence: true
>>   validates :category_content, presence: true
>>   validates :selection_content, presence: true
>>
>>
>>   default_scope order: 'microposts.created_at DESC'
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>> class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
>>   attr_accessible :content, :id, :count, :c_count
>>   has_many :selections
>>   has_many :comments
>>
>>   default_scope order: 'categories.count DESC'
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>> class Selection < ActiveRecord::Base
>>   attr_accessible :content, :count, :category_id
>>   belongs_to :category
>>
>>   default_scope order: 'selections.count DESC'
>>
>> end
>>
>>
>> In my console, when I create a user u and enter "u.microposts" I get the 
>> desired response (a list of microposts created by u). When I create a 
>> category c and enter 
>>
>> "c.selections" I also get the desired response (a list of selections that 
>> belong to c). But when I enter "s.microposts" I get the following error 
>> message- "undefined 
>>
>> method `microposts' for #<Selection:0x57c6b40>". Similarly, when I enter 
>> "u.microposts" I get the error message- "undefined method `microposts' for 
>>
>> #<Category:0x45c0498>".  Any ideas why this is happening?
>>
>> I am developing on Windows using RubyMine. I am definitely moving to OS X 
>> soon, because I have to make too many hoops working around the Windows 
>> environment, but I don't see why this would make a difference here. 
>>
>

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