Thanks Colin, Yeah, I better do that. I'm not a newbie, BUT I haven;t been on an RoR project since 09 (just all Python and Java in the interim) and the "Magic" of things like ActiveRecord I have forgotten about, not to mention much of the syntax. Thanks for your help here.
rvince On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:31:07 PM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote: > > On 13 November 2012 17:30, RVince <rvin...@hotmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:16:15 PM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote: > >> > >> You know that if you have > >> an event then its eventfeatures are event.eventfeatures and if you > >> have an eventfeature then its event is eventfeature.event? > >> > > > > Ah, it's coming back to me now, yes, you've put me on the right track. > But > > in my EventfeaturesConroller, how do I access the Event that the > > Eventfeature belongs to? > > > > class Admin::EventfeaturesController < Admin::AdminController > > def index > > @eventfeatures = Eventfeature.all(:order => > ["feature_type,sort_order"]) > > end > > > > I want @eventfeatures to be only those eventfeatures that belong to the > > given event -- how do you specify that (or is it implied by the > Eventfeature > > model wherein I say it belongs_to :event) ? > > How do you know (in the controller) which event you are referring to? > Are you passing it in the url? If you pass the event id in the url > then you can fetch the event from the database and then its > eventfeatures are @event.eventfeatures. > > Can I suggest that it might be worth your while working right through > a rails tutorial such as railstutorial.org (which is free to use > online) then you will get a working knowledge of the basics of Rails. > > Colin > -- 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/IkPE8j6KLlsJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
