I’m a beginner to both Ruby and Rails and I’m currently reading the
Agile
development with Rails, in which I’m currently developing the cart of
the
store.
I have a line_items model which belongs_to :products. This makes
sense.
Later in the example we use this code to check if a product is
referenced
by any line items before we destroy it:
# ensure that there are no line items referencing this product
def ensure_not_referenced_by_any_line_item
if line_items.empty?
return true
else
errors.add(:base, 'Line Items present')
return false
end
end
end
This makes sense to me except of one part: if line_items.empty? I can
only guess that *line_items *returns all the rows of the “line_items”
table that contain the product.id of the currently instantiated Product
object, is that right? But how does the model knows what to fetch just
by “line_items”? Isn’t that too little info that we give to our model,
regarding the logic of the task it has to do? Don’t we have to declare
somewhere something like: return false if line_items.product.id ==
product.id ?
return false if line_items.product.id == product.id ?
The fact that you have said has_many :line_items automatically makes a
method line_items available for any product that returns an array
(actually it is not strictly an array, but near enough) containing all
the line items for that product.
Similarly if you have a line item in @line_item then you can say @line_item.product to get the associated product.
Have a look at the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord associations to find
all the methods that rails makes available.
Now I’ve upgraded my seeds.rb file, to add some entry into the
line_items
table and see how it works.
Actually I’ve added this line: LineItem.create (product_id: ‘8’,
cart_id:
‘1’)
*
*
but when I run rake db:seed I get this error: