I just want to make a little join table, eventually storing extra info on that join (which is why I'm not using HABTM). From the rails documentation of associations I've created the following models:
class Physician < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :appointments
has_many :patients, :through => :appointments
end
class Patient < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :appointments
has_many :physicians, :through => :appointments
end
class Appointment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :physicians
belongs_to :patients
end
my schema looks like this:
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20130115211859) do
create_table "appointments", :force => true do |t|
t.datetime "date"
t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
t.integer "patient_id"
t.integer "physician_id"
end
create_table "patients", :force => true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
end
create_table "physicians", :force => true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
end
end
When I'm in the console and I create a physician and patient instance:
@patient = Patient.create!
@physician = Physician.create!
And try to associate one to the other
@physician.patients << @patient
I get
NameError: uninitialized constant Physician::Patients
Questions about this example have been asked before but none have address my scenario. Any ideas?
Thanks, Neil, rails newbie.
