I just started learning Rails and I'm just trying to set up query via associations. All the queries I try to write seem to be doing bizzare things and end up trying to query two tables parsed together with an '_' as one table. I have no clue why this would ever happen My tables are as follows:
schools: id name
variables: id name type
var_entries: id variable_id entry
school_entries: id school_id var_entry_id
my rails association tables are
$local = {
:adapter => "mysql",
:host => "localhost",
:port => "3306".to_i,
:database => "spy_2",
:username =>"root",
:password => "vertrigo"
}
class School < ActiveRecord::Base
establish_connection $local
has_many :school_entries
has_many :var_entries, :through => school_entries
end
class Variable < ActiveRecord::Base
establish_connection $local
has_many :var_entries
has_many :school_entries, :through => :var_entries
end
class VarEntry < ActiveRecord::Base
establish_connection $local
has_many_and_belongs_to :school_entries
belongs_to :variables
end
class SchoolEntry < ActiveRecord::Base
establish_connection $local
belongs_to :school
has_many :var_entries
end
I want to do this sql query:
SELECT school_id, variable_id,rank
FROM school_entries, variables, var_entries, schools
WHERE var_entries.variable_id = variables.id
AND school_entries.var_entry_id = var_entries.id
AND schools.id = school_entries.school_id
AND variables.type = 'number';
and put it into Rails notation: here is one of my many failed attempts
schools = VarEntry.all(:include => [:school_entries, :variables], :conditions => "variables.type = 'number'")
the error:
'const_missing': uninitialized constant VarEntry::Variables (NameError)
if i remove variables
schools = VarEntry.all(:include => [:school_entries, :variables], :conditions => "type = 'number'")
the error is:
Mysql::Error: Unkown column 'type' in 'where clause': SELECT * FROM 'var_entries' WHERE (type=number) (ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid)
Can anyone tell me where I'm going horribly wrong?
