Rails relationships don't work

Question

I'm using Rails 3.0.1/Ruby 1.9.2

I have two tables: Product and Category .

These are the models:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :parent_category, :class_name => "Category"
end

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end

So I want to access the category of the product by calling product.parent_category , and get all products from a certain category by calling category.products .

But this doesn't work.

Rails raises an exception when I do category.products

column products.category_id does not exist

It tries to find the category_id column, but I have a parent_category_id column in my table and I want to use it.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :parent_category, :class_name => "Category", :foreign_key => "parent_category_id"
end

Answer 2

Try this:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :parent_category, :class_name => "Category"
end

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products, :foreign_key => :parent_category_id
end