has_one :through doesn't work in Rails 2.2.2

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I followed the steps in the following link literally in a new Rails 2.2.2 project http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/3/24/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-has-one-through

Then I ran it in script/console, getting these error (actually I got same error in another big rails project before I read that link):

NoMethodError: undefined method `update_attributes' for #<Class: 0xb7069980>         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:1833:in `method_missing'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:370:in `send'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:370:in `method_missing'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:2003:in `with_scope'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:202:in `send'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:202:in `with_scope'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:366:in `method_missing'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations/has_one_through_association.rb:11:in `create_through_record'         from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/ active_record/associations.rb:1273:in `magazine='         from (irb):4

2

Maybe your defined rails version in environment.rb is not 2.2.2?

3

I was having the same issue as Clive trying to test the referenced example I was able to get some functionality by using :has_one subscription rather than :has_many.

I do have a question though.

I can set the through association like this

user=User.create(:name=>"Bob") m=Magazine.create(:name=>'test') user.magazine=m then user.subscription will = #<Subscription id: 1, user_id: 1, magazine_id: 1...>

However, using user.update_attributes(:magazine=>m) the return is true, but there is no association created. Subscription remains nil.

Am I wrong in assuming that I should be able to do this?