UML aggregation vs association

Rumbaugh’s statement is the most telling and Uncle Bob’s good advice. As I’ve said elsewhere, Aggregation is semantically so weak as to offer nothing practically beneficial. It only has one valid corner case (acyclicity of recursive relationships) however few people know and understand that. So you end up having to point out in comments anyway. … Read more

Sails.js populate nested associations

Or you can use the built-in Blue Bird Promise feature to make it. (Working on Sails@v0.10.5) See the codes below: var _ = require(‘lodash’); … Post .findOne(req.param(‘id’)) .populate(‘user’) .populate(‘comments’) .then(function(post) { var commentUsers = User.find({ id: _.pluck(post.comments, ‘user’) //_.pluck: Retrieves the value of a ‘user’ property from all elements in the post.comments collection. }) .then(function(commentUsers) … Read more

How to use ActiveAdmin on models using has_many through association?

For 1) show do panel “Patients” do table_for physician.appointments do column “name” do |appointment| appointment.patient.name end column :appointment_date end end end For 2) form do |f| f.inputs “Details” do # physician’s fields f.input :name end f.has_many :appointments do |app_f| app_f.inputs “Appointments” do if !app_f.object.nil? # show the destroy checkbox only if it is an existing … Read more

rails override default getter for a relationship (belongs_to)

alias_method is your friend here. alias_method :original_bar, :bar def bar self.original_bar || Bar.last end The way this works is that you alias the default “bar” method as “original bar” and then implement your own version of “bar”. If the call to original_bar returns nil then you return the last Bar instance instead.

Ruby-on-Rails: Multiple has_many :through possible?

Edit: Rails 3.1 supports nested associations. E.g: has_many :tasks has_many :assigments, :through => :tasks has_many :users, :through => :assignments There is no need for the solution given below. Refer to this screencast for more details. Original Answer You are passing a has_many :through association as a source for another has_many :through association. I don’t think … Read more

add associations to exisiting models

belongs_to association expect an association_id column in its corresponding table. Since cars belongs_to user, the cars table should have a user_id column. This can be accomplished 2 ways. first, you can generate the column when you create the model rails g model car user_id:references or just add the user_id after you create the model like … Read more

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