my app has user, photo, and state models.
a user belongs to a state and thusly has a state_id field,
a user has many photos.
I have the photos view set up as the home page.
I am trying to set up a select tag and form tag to filter through the
photos by which state is selected.
My files are:
statesmen = State.find_by_name(params[:state][:name]).users
statesmen.each do |person|
@photos = Photo.where(:user_id => [person.id](http://person.id))
end
else …
My questions are 1
Is there a better way to collect the photos? Theres gotta be. Should I
just give the photo a state_id field?
If you added a has_many :photos, :through => :users associations to State then you should be able to do state.photos
and 2
Why can’t I do it this way
Well you haven’t said what’s not working, but at a guess it’s because you’re just assigning to @photos again and again rather than addinging the individuals results together