object. I was looking for something to help me on this. '
ActiveRecord::Reflection' a nice module to get association info.
Thanks Peter.
- Abhi
Peter wrote in post #1032176:
On Nov 15, 12:27pm, PandaR1 wrote:
belongs_to :currency, :class_name => "Measureunit" , :foreign_key =>
"currency_id"
How can I recover the class name from the association name (eg. I have the
string 'Currency' and I look for
a method that return 'Measureunit')
I found class_name() and klass() but I can't figure the syntax...
I believe what you're saying is that you have the Vendor class, andbelongs_to :currency, :class_name => "Measureunit" , :foreign_key =>
"currency_id"
How can I recover the class name from the association name (eg. I have the
string 'Currency' and I look for
a method that return 'Measureunit')
I found class_name() and klass() but I can't figure the syntax...
the name of the association as a string, 'Currency'. You want to look
at The ActiveRecord::Reflection documentation, specifically
reflect_on_association (http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/
Reflection/ClassMethods/reflect_on_association). That gives you back
an AssociationReflection, which has a bunch of information for you:
http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Reflection/AssociationReflection.
Specifically again, you likely want klass on that, which should return
the class of the association; do be aware that its a little bit more
complex for polymorphic relationships if that's necessary to support.
So in summary what you likely want is something like
s = "Currency"
association_name = s.underscore # Or
whatever transformation takes your string to your association name
reflection = Vendor.reflect_on_association(association_name) #
Returns the AssociationReflection object
reflection.klass #
Returns the class object, in this case Measureunit
HTH,
\Peter
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