has_many relationship - specify how quantity (how many)

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

Is there any way to specify a a validation rule or something for the "has_many' relationship so that it would count the related objects?

For e.g. I want my Foo object to have maximum of 5 Bar objects in has_many relationship.

M.

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I suppose you could write a custom validator to ensure that no more than 5 child objects exist.

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validates :bar_limit

def bar_limit   ... end

-eric