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Ruby Active Record Associations in Rails More Association Options Polymorphic "Has Many" Associations

bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
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Posted by bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
88,917 Points

How do I Update the Car and Truck model classes so that each is treated as a "vehicle" which has_many Part instances?

I'm stuck on this challenge.

Update the Car and Truck model classes so that each is treated as a "vehicle" which has_many Part instances.

class Car, Parts < ApplicationRecord # YOUR CODE HERE has_many :vehicle_id has_many :vehicle_type end

We couldn't find any association from the Car class to the Part class. <---- This is the error I got from the above code.

models/car.rb 
class Car < ApplicationRecord
  # YOUR CODE HERE
 has_many :vehicle_id
 has_many :vehicle_type 
end
models/truck.rb 
class Truck < ApplicationRecord
  # YOUR CODE HERE
end

2 Answers

Jake Dewan
Jake Dewan
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Jake Dewan
Jake Dewan
7,653 Points

First off what you need to do is to put the "Parts" instance in the has_many and then do it as a "Vehicle" instance so your code should look like this under the Car and Truck class.

class Car < ApplicationRecord has_many :parts, :as=> :vehicle end

class Truck < ApplicationRecord has_many :parts, :as=> :vehicle end

bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
88,917 Points
bessiebarnes
bessiebarnes
88,917 Points

Thank you, Jake, for the help on this challenge.

Jeremiah Shafer
Jeremiah Shafer
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Jeremiah Shafer
Jeremiah Shafer
12,388 Points

The syntax of the above code is incorrect. It should be:

class Car < ApplicationRecord
    has_many :parts, as: :vehicle
end

class Truck < ApplicationRecord
    has_many :parts, as: :vehicle
end