Hey everyone, I'm either blind to the obvious, or I'm being overly
complicated.
I created a site that tracks events. Originally (out of ease and
speed) I created a text field for the location of the event. My
users (rightly) got tired of doing the copy/paste shuffle every time
they wanted to create a new event. As there were only a handful of
locations being used I figured it would be nice to break out the
locations into their own model/controller and create a one-to-many
association (event has one location, location has many events). This
way, I can switch the location selection in the event form to a drop-
down. Easy!
The events table now has a location_id foreign key and there's a
"belongs_to :location" in the events model. The locations model has
a "has_many :events" but it doesn't seem really necessary; there's no
need or desire from the users to list the events by location. I've
added it simply because every single example of a one-to-many
association is built that way, though from what I' can tell
"has_many" does not require anything in the locations table, it only
generates a method that runs through the events table looking for a
matching id in the locations_id foreign-key column. (eg:
@location.events Follow? :) )
So to just to get things rolling, in views/events/show.html.erb I
have the following section:
<p>
<%= @event.location.name %><br />
<%= @event.location.address1 %><br />
<%= @event.location.address2 %><br />
<%= @event.location.city %>, <%= @event.location.state %><br />
<%= @event.location.zip %><br />
<%= @event.location.other %><br />
</p>
(there is also a location.label, which is a short nickname used in
the location drop-down)
Anyway, I figured it would be much more DRY to just call the "show"
view/action in the Locations controller from within the "show" view
for an event. IE, when I "show" and event, it "show"s the location.
Nice and OO right?
It's either not so easy, or I'm off in left field.
The closest I can get is <%= render 'locations/show' %> but of course
@location isn't set, so that does nothing. I tried adding "@location
= Locations.find(@event.location_id)" to the show action in the
Events controller, so that the above render would have a @location
when it got to the view, but I get the error "uninitialized constant
EventsController::Locations". (also tried find_by_id)
Not sure what to do, but since I've been banging my head against this
for two days, I'm a bit numb. Overload a 'find' method in my
Location model (not the controller, the model)? I hate leaving it as
above, but I since the ugly works, I'll just put white-out on my
screen whenever I edit that file.
All thoughts welcome!
Bob Campbell
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