Here are my tables
patients id name 1 Bob 2 Carol 3 Ted 4 Reggie
families family_id patient_id 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 4
How do I structure the model associations so that I can @patient.family.patient[0].name?
Make sense?
Bo Pritchard wrote in post #971530:
Here are my tables
patients id name 1 Bob 2 Carol 3 Ted 4 Reggie
families family_id patient_id 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 4
How do I structure the model associations so that I can @patient.family.patient[0].name?
By writing that method chain, you've just about answered your own question. Try it!
Make sense?
Best,
I don't think you have the tables quite right. I think you need Patient belongs_to family (so patients table will have family_id field) and family has_many patients. Family needs only id field (plus other stuff I assume).
Then you can use @patient.family.patients[0].name. Note patients is plural here.
Colin