Rails link from one model to another based on db field?

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Published on 2010-05-21T08:02:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 8:10 UTC
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Hi Everyone,

I have a company model and a person model with the following relationships:

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :kases
  has_many :people
  def to_s; companyname; end
end

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :kases # foreign key in join table
  belongs_to :company
end

In the create action for the person, I have a select box with a list of the companies, which assigns a company_id to that person's record:

<%= f.select :company_id, Company.all.collect {|m| [m.companyname, m.id]} %>

In the show view for the person I can list the company name as follows:

<%=h @person.company.companyname %>

What I am trying to work out, is how do I make that a link to the company record?

I have tried:

<%= link_to @person.company.companyname %>

but that just outputs the company name inside a href tag but links to the current page.

Thanks,

Danny

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