On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Nicktabs wrote:
> > I'm building a shop in rails as a learning excercise. I've got to the > last part when I'm sending out e-mail order confirmations. The e-mails > contain a list of each line item the customer ordered, I also want to > display the catgory name the customer ordered from. > > The database is setup: Category > Product > Line_item. > So I want to navigate back from line_item > product > category so i > can display the category name in the email however im not sure how I > tell it to find the category name from the item. > > Be greatful for anyhelp. @line_item.product.category.name Assuming all the associations are setup correctly. You can also set it up using :through so that you can just to @line_item.category.name -philip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
