I’m not sure I’m reading this right, but if you’re looking for the answers to the questions asked by a specific user wouldn’t it be
@user = User.find(params[:id]
@user.questions = the questions the user asked
@user.questions.answers = the answers to the questions the user asked.
THere’s something troubling to me about your model set up but I can’t think of what it is.
Hi, I have the following tables:
– id
– username
– id
– asker_id
– question_text
Even though you have the column as “asker_id” rather than the conventional “user_id”, your use of the foreign_key: on the belongs_to compensates.
– id
– answerer_id
– answer_text
Again with the un-conventional foreign_key, but what’s missing is a “question_id” to go along with your Answer model’s belongs_to :question
And I wanna make a query to get all questions, with the username who
asked, and all question answers. I made the code but please tell me if
is a good practice:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :questions
you need to declare the foreign_key here, too (foreign_key: :asker_id)
Also, you can add:
has_many :answers, through: :questions
has_many :responses, class_name: "Answer", foreign_key: :answerer_id
end
class Question < ActiveRecord::Base
validates :question_text, presence: true
belongs_to :user, foreign_key: "asker_id"
has_many :answers
end
class Answer < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :question
belongs_to :user, foreign_key: "answerer_id"
def asker
self.question.try(:user)
end
end
Controller:
@questions = Question.joins(:user).joins('LEFT JOIN answers on
answers.question_id = questions.id’).order(id: ‘desc’).group(:id)
A user can:
Have more questions
A question can:
Have more answers
Then you can have any of the following:
@user = User.includes(questions: :answers).find_by username: “foo”
@user.questions # for all this user’s questions
@user.answers # for all the answers to all the questions asked by this user
@user.responses # for the answers that this user gave in response to a question
@questions = Question.includes(:user, :answers).order(id: :desc).all
@answer = Answer.includes(:user, :question).find_by id: some_id
@answer.user # the one who gave the answer
@answer.question # the question
@answer.asker # the one who asked the question
That should get you going.
-Rob
