Rails 3 associations

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class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :books has_many :book_users has_many :books, :through => :book_users end class Book < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user has_many :book_users has_many :users, :through => :book_users end

An user can write many books An book can belong to only one user An user can be a reader of different books An book can be read by different users

User.books

should give me the books the user has written

User.books_read

should give me the books, are read by this user

How accomplish this ?

Second question, what is the simplest method to delete book_read from the user ? I mean

User.method_name(book_id) # what's the method name ?

RobinBrouwer · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-12 12:57:42Z

First question:

You either use :source or :class_name.

has_many :books_read, :class_name => "Book", :through => :book_users

I don't know for sure if :class_name works with has_many :through. If it doesn't work, try this:

has_many :books_read, :source => :book, :through => :book_users

That should do the trick.

Second question:

As far as I know there isn't really a simple method to delete books from the books_read relation. You could create your own method to accomplish this. Just make sure you delete records from :book_users and not the has_many :through relation. Or else the books themselves will be deleted.

def delete_book(book_id) self.book_users.find_by_book_id(book_id).destroy end

When using Rails 3 you can't use the find_by_... helper and need to use where.

def delete_book(book_id) self.book_users.where(:book_id => book_id).destroy end

Now you can call this function as follows:

User.find(1).delete_book(2)

I hope that helps you out.

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