How to setup has_and_belongs_to_many relationship with a scoped and aliased class?

Question

I try to associate Roles to a Group (of users). The Role class does not exist, I use an extract (a scope) of the Parameter class. I got inspiration from apidock.com, but cannot implement the example using a scope. I setup the relationship as follow:

##group.rb
  has_and_belongs_to_many :roles, :class_name => "Parameter", -> { where("parameters_list_id = ?", 13) }

##paramter.rb
  has_and_belongs_to_many :groups

When I add the lambda for scoping the relation, the following error raises:

group.rb:39: syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting =>

Can you help me to solve this issue?

Thank you for your help.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '20 at 15:36

Changed the order of parameters and indented for clarity:

has_and_belongs_to_many :roles,
                        -> { where("parameters_list_id = ?", 13) },
                        :class_name => "Parameter"

Options always come in the end of the parameter list. Hashes sometimes can come in the middle, but then they have to be delimited by {}. The brackets can only be omitted if the hash is the last parameter.

How to setup has_and_belongs_to_many relationship with a scoped and aliased class?

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