Hello,
I am new to rails and am trying to get my associations straight. I have a User model and a Property model. I'd like to track who has updated a property record, so I added an integer field to the properties table called updated_by. Then I made the following changes:
In the User model: has_many :properties
In the Property model: belongs_to :user, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => 'updated_by'
Here's what I see inside of the rails console:
prop = Property.first
=> #<Property id: 1, name: "Main Street Center", ..., updated_by: nil>
usr = User.first
=> #<User id: 1, login: "sshartles", name: "Sam Shartles", ... >
prop.user = usr
=> #<User id: 1, login: "sshartles", name: "Sam Shartles", ... >
prop.updated_by
=> 1
prop.updated_by.name
NoMethodError: undefined method `name' for 1:Fixnum from (irb):5
I'm not sure what I've done, but I think it's something simple. Any help would be massively appreciated.
Sam