I am using the gem amistad to manage friendships in my application.
I would like to track when relationships occur to be able to display some notifications.
First, I would like to add a timestamp to the relationship model in order to be able to do queries such as : retrieve all Friendships where receiving user is current user, and where updated_at is greater than the last time the current_user checked his notifications. By counting those results I can say: 3 incoming contact requests and display them.
So I made a migration:
class AddUpdatedAtToFriendship < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
change_table :friendships do |t|
t.timestamps
end
end
end
rake db:migratemigrates correctly, but then the updated_at is not automatically when records are created or updated via the gem (eg: @user.invite another_user).
FYI, the invite method is the following: (code here)
def invite(user)
return false if user == self || find_any_friendship_with(user)
Amistad.friendship_class.new{ |f| f.friendable = self ; f.friend = user }.save
end
I don't see why the active record auto timestamps doesn't work in this case.
Note: If I manually create a friendship in the console, the timestamps are set:
$> rails c
test = Amistad::Friendships::UserFriendship.new
test.friend_id = 1
test.friendable_id = 2
test.save
test.updated_at
=> Thu, 23 May 2013 17:59:17 CEST +02:00
Even If I do that in the console timestamps are set : So it must be a context problem...
$> rails c
test2 = Amistad.friendship_class.new{ |f| f.friendable = User.find_by_id(5) ; f.friend = User.find_by_id(6) }.save
test2.updated_at
=> Thu, 23 May 2013 18:02:05 CEST +02:00
But still, when I call @user.invite another_user in the application, it doesn't update the timestamps...
Second, in the rails console, if I type Friendships.all, Friendship.all, Amistad::Friendships.all... I get :
NameError: uninitialized constant Friendship
How can I solve those 2 problems. Any suggestions ?
