Ticket for Review #765: Add :primary_key option to belongs_to association

rubyonrails-core
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Hi -

Several weeks ago ticket #292 added the ability to specify the primary
key in a has_many relationship and use that field instead of the
primary key.

  http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/292-add-has_many-primary_key-option

This doesn't exist for the belongs_to side of that relationship.
Ticket 765 (hopefully) fixes this.

  http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/765-primary_key-option-for-belongs_to#ticket-765-2

With this patch applied one can now do this:

..... schema ......

    create_table :states do |t|       t.string :abbr       t.string :name     end

    create_table :cities do |t|       t.string :state_abbr       t.string :name     end

..... models ......

class City < ActiveRecord::Base   belongs_to :state, :primary_key => :abbr, :foreign_key => :state_abbr end

class State < ActiveRecord::Base   has_many :cities, :primary_key => :abbr, :foreign_key => :state_abbr end

And assuming the tables are populated with the data you'd expect, you
can use the association as normal.

>> wa = State.find(1) => #<State id: 1, abbr: "WA", name: "Washington"> => #<City id: 1, state_abbr: "WA", name: "Olympia"> >> wa.cities.first.state => #<State id: 1, abbr: "WA", name: "Washington">

Thanks for taking a look!

-philip