On 12 April 2016 at 08:17, Naveed Alam <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Using rails 4, I have two models Supplier and Category > > Category belongs_to Supplier > > and Supplier has_many categories > > > now the suppliers table has fields, company_name, address, phone etc. > and id > > and the categories has cat_name and supplier_id > > in the categories index view I want to display all categories names > along with associated company_names. > > in the categories_controller my index method is below. > > def index > @categories = Category.all > #????????????????????? what to do to find company_name
See below > end > > and my index.html.erb view is > > <% @categories.each do |category| %> > <tr> > <td><%= category.cat_name %></td> > <td><%= category.cat_sub_name %></td> > <td><%= category.supplier %></td> category.supplier is the whole supplier record, so if you want the name it is just category.supplier.company_name Such is the magic of Rails. As a beginner I suggest you work right through a good tutorial in order to get the basics or Rails. The one I suggest is railstutorial.org (which is free to use online). Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLvj8f6i9CJbKhMSb-XqcEun%2Bi1_mHkfxpNV5FiUHztxHA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
