It appears that I have the models and migrations set up correctly.
In case anyone is wondering why i set it up like this I had it working
with just a contact model and this will save a bunch of coding changes
to my already working CRUD ajax inline contact form. I am adding a
contrator model so I would like to have a polymorphic setup so I can
differentiate the two types of people in the form.
I have a Person that is polymorphic, it will have a contact and
contractor type.
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :contactable, :polymorphic => true
end
class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :people, :as => :contactable
end
When I do:
person = Person.create(params[:person])
@contact = Contact.create(params[:contact])
person.contactable = @contact
It goes without an error but puts NIL in the contactable_type and
contactable_id columns.
Anyone have an idea why? I spent a couple hours with this earlier.
In case anyone is wondering here is the migration:
class CreatePeople < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :people do |t|
t.integer :company_id
t.references :contactable, :polymorphic => true
t.timestamps
end
end
def self.down
drop_table :people
end
end
Are you saving the person record after having assigned the
contactable ?
Fred
The Create method saves on creation does it not?
Here is my stand alone script i just tried, still putting NIL in the contactable columns: I even tried person.contactable.save to no avail.
RAILS_ENV = ‘development’
require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/config/boot’
require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/config/environment’
@contact = Contact.create(:name => ‘moo’)
@contact.save
person = Person.create(:company_id => ‘1’)
person.save
person.contactable = @contact
Ok, I was looking at the DB for the contactable.type and id. Why does it not show up there but when you query it is is there?
I did the example in rails recipe. I can retrieve the addressable_id
and type when I create itfrom the console, but when I go log out and
go back and try to retrieve them they give back NIL just like the DB
shows. Is the ID and TYPE supposed to show up in the DB? I am still
getting NIL for the polymorphic columns. Stumped...
Ok, I did a new method instead of create and then the last thing I did
was a save and it works. Anybody know why?
Because assignment of the new parent record to a child is not
immideately persisted. You need to call save to persist it in the
database.
So this changes only the object in memory:
person.contactable = @contact
This updates the database:
person.contactable = @contact
person.save
Dmitry
I did that even with the “create” methid, no luck. I had to use the “new” method and save it for it to write to the db.