Hello,
I am having what I might think is a basic problem...I can't get the
relationships of has_many and belongs_to mapped out correctly in the
database. I would expect, according to my MODEL and MIGRATION, that there
would be a desktop_id in the states and environments DATABASE table ?
How can I get the desktop_id, state_id and environment_id columns mapped
out in the tables ?
There need to be statements in your migrations to add those columns -
rails won't look at the models and work it out from the associations
in there.
You may be confusing things with datamapper (that does do this I
think) or with the fact that if you do rails g model foo
belongs_to:bar then rails will add the belongs_to to the model and the
migration.
Fred.
Hello Frederick,
As you suggested, i attempted to include this in my scaffold, but when I rake db:migrate, I get the error:
user@user-user:~/dev/myapp$ rails generate scaffold engine belongs_to:environment belongs_to:state
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20121226181404_create_engines.rb
create app/models/engine.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/engine_test.rb
create test/fixtures/engines.yml
invoke resource_route
route resources :engines
invoke scaffold_controller
create app/controllers/engines_controller.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/engines
create app/views/engines/index.html.erb
create app/views/engines/edit.html.erb
create app/views/engines/show.html.erb
create app/views/engines/new.html.erb
create app/views/engines/_form.html.erb
invoke test_unit
create test/functional/engines_controller_test.rb
invoke helper
create app/helpers/engines_helper.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/helpers/engines_helper_test.rb
invoke assets
invoke coffee
create app/assets/javascripts/engines.js.coffee
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/engines.css.scss
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss
user@user-user:~/dev/myapp$ rails generate scaffold environment description:string has_many:engines
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20121226181441_create_environments.rb
create app/models/environment.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/environment_test.rb
create test/fixtures/environments.yml
invoke resource_route
route resources :environments
invoke scaffold_controller
create app/controllers/environments_controller.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/environments
create app/views/environments/index.html.erb
create app/views/environments/edit.html.erb
create app/views/environments/show.html.erb
create app/views/environments/new.html.erb
create app/views/environments/_form.html.erb
invoke test_unit
create test/functional/environments_controller_test.rb
invoke helper
create app/helpers/environments_helper.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/helpers/environments_helper_test.rb
invoke assets
invoke coffee
create app/assets/javascripts/environments.js.coffee
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/environments.css.scss
invoke scss
identical app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss
user@user-user:~/dev/myapp$ rails generate scaffold state description:string has_many:engines
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20121226181504_create_states.rb
create app/models/state.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/state_test.rb
create test/fixtures/states.yml
invoke resource_route
route resources :states
invoke scaffold_controller
create app/controllers/states_controller.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/states
create app/views/states/index.html.erb
create app/views/states/edit.html.erb
create app/views/states/show.html.erb
create app/views/states/new.html.erb
create app/views/states/_form.html.erb
invoke test_unit
create test/functional/states_controller_test.rb
invoke helper
create app/helpers/states_helper.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/helpers/states_helper_test.rb
invoke assets
invoke coffee
create app/assets/javascripts/states.js.coffee
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/states.css.scss
invoke scss
identical app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss
user@user-user:~/dev/myapp$ rake db:create
user@user-user:~/dev/myapp$ rake db:migrate
== CreateEngines: migrating ==================================================
– create_table(:engines)
rake aborted!
An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:
undefined method environment' for #<ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::TableDefinition:0x00000001ca2ff0> /home/user/temp/project/db/migrate/20121226181404_create_engines.rb:4:in block in change’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:160:in create_table' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:466:in block in method_missing’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:438:in block in say_with_time' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:438:in say_with_time’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:458:in method_missing' /home/user/temp/project/db/migrate/20121226181404_create_engines.rb:3:in change’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:407:in block (2 levels) in migrate' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:407:in block in migrate’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:129:in with_connection' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:389:in migrate’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:528:in migrate' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:720:in block (2 levels) in migrate’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:775:in call' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:775:in block in ddl_transaction’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:192:in transaction' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in transaction’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:775:in ddl_transaction' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:719:in block in migrate’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in each' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:700:in migrate’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:570:in up' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/migration.rb:551:in migrate’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/activerecord-3.2.9/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:179:in block (2 levels) in <top (required)>' /home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in eval’
/home/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `’
Tasks: TOP => db:migrate
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
Hello Frederick,
As you suggested, i attempted to include this in my scaffold, but when I
rake db:migrate, I get the error:
You probably don't want to include the has_many - since that requires
a column on the other table. Other than that, take a look at the
generated migration.
To be honest i don't bother with the belongs_to shortcuts for
migrations - I just add the columns as 'normal' columns and then edit
the model
Fred