AssociationTypeMismatch

Rails
1

I have a very simple pairing scenario that links a pair to two items
(cross-comparison and rating).

My problem is that on insertion of the pair I get an
AssociationTypeMismatch error, that I haven’t seen before.

class Pair < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :flag
has_one :item_1, :class_name => ‘Item’
has_one :item_2, :class_name => ‘Item’
end

class Flag < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :pair
has_many :pairs
validates_presence_of :descriptor, :weight
end

The Item class is very simple.

What am I missing or doing wrong on trying to create the new pair?

pair = Pair.new(:item_1 => 606276291, :item_2 => 977772386)
ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch: Item(#70065549615160) expected,
got Fixnum(#70065601288820)

Thanks.

2

class Pair < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :flag

belongs_to :item, :class_name => ‘Item’, :foreign_key => ‘item_1’,
:validate => true
belongs_to :item, :class_name => ‘Item’, :foreign_key => ‘item_2’,
:validate => true

end

seems to fix the problem.

3

On Oct 26, 9:43am, Sem P. [email protected] wrote:

What am I missing or doing wrong on trying to create the new pair?

pair = Pair.new(:item_1 => 606276291, :item_2 => 977772386)
ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch: Item(#70065549615160) expected,
got Fixnum(#70065601288820)

It’s expecting an instance of item, but you’re giving it an integer
instead.

Fred