On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Tony Tony <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net > wrote:
> > Hi all, > > I'm ashamed to ask this but I can't figure it out. Lately my brain gets > more burned out by the minute. Basically I'm trying to have a shirt have > up to 2 colors. I currently have this working. When I edit a shirt, I > can select the primary and secondary color of a shirt. But when I want > to see the colors in the show page I can't manage to see the name only > the id. > > > For example: > > <b>Primary Color:</b> > <%=h @shirt.color_id %><br /> > > <b>Secondary Color:</b> > <%=h @shirt.color2_id %><br /> I'd make the following changes so that I could use more meaningful names for the colors: Models ====== class Shirt < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :primary_color, :class_name => "ApprovedColor", :foreign_key => "color_id" belongs_to :secondary_color, :class_name => "ApprovedColor", :foreign_key => "color2_id" end class ApprovedColor < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :shirts end Even though I've used Rails for quite awhile now, I still have to stop and think sometimes about where the belongs_to and the has_many go. The belongs_to goes where the foreign key exists, on Shirt in this case. View ==== <b>Primary Color:</b> <%=h @shirt.primary_color.name %><br /> <b>Secondary Color:</b> <%=h @shirt.secondary_color.name if @shirt.secondary_color %><br /> Regards, Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
