'type' is used by ActiveRecord to indicate Single Table Inheritance. That's probably tripping you up (esp. since changing the name eliminates the issue)
On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Rasmus Nielsen wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have a Item-model that belongs to the ItemType-model. This works > fine: > > class Item < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :item_type > end > > However, if I rewrite this to: > > class Item < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :type, :class_name => "ItemType" > end > > ... i get the following in the console: >>> Item.first.type > => nil > > When looking at my log I can see that no query are sent to the > db-server. This does not work: > class Item < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :blah, :class_name => "ItemType" > end > > However, this does: > class Item < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :item_type, :class_name => "ItemType" # I know this does > not make sense > end > > Can anybody explain what's going on there? Ultimately I would like > to be > able to write Item.find(x).type. > > Thanks in advance! :-) > > - Rasmus > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
