Calling a default record for a has_many association

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I have a Shop model that has_many Zones (a Zone assigns different pricing to products). I want to save a default Zone for a Shop. This is what I have in my Shop class:

has_one :default_zone, :class_name => "Zone"

After that, however, I am a bit lost. I know I can manually set shop.default_zone_id to a zone.id, but I would imagine a better system of doing this exists.

Thanks, Angelo, a desperate man

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Hiya,

Not sure what you are after really but your solution seems okay to me. If you are wondering how to then update it then:

Check here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html#M001834

You can do things like:

# build a default zone (doesn't auto-save) shop.build_default_zone(:name => 'Zone1')

# create a default zone (auto-saves) shop.create_default_zone(:name => 'Zone2')

# or assign an existing zone: zone = Zone.find(3) shop.default_zone = zone

That any help?

Luke

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I tried different variations of what you posted, and unfortunately, none of them worked.

Both shop.build_default_zone and shop.create_default_zone create a Zone record with the Shop ID correctly saved, but the Shop's default_zone_id column isn't updated; shop.default_zone_id remains blank.

This is basically what I have in seeds.rb:

shop = Shop.new shop.name = "Sample" shop.save

zone = shop.build_default_zone zone.name = "Default"

shop.save

I attempted adding "shop.default_zone = Zone.first" at the end of seeds.rb, but, again, it did not work.

Any ideas? Perhaps I'm ordering my saves/builds incorrectly? I can't get this seemingly simple thing to work.

Thanks for your help, Angelo