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Dan S
Dan S
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Posted by Dan S
Dan S
1,966 Points

Trouble with ActiveRecord associations rails

I have a Rails app that i'm using Paperclip with. I already have the app uploading a profile pic, which is great. I now want to be able to upload multiple attachments/files, per user. Therefore I have created an attachments table / model, and added the has_many to the user model, just like I did for a Comments model. This does not seem to work though.

Looking at Webrick, its not even selecting the records from the database. So I wondered if i'm missing something with the has_many association.

Dan S
Dan S
1,966 Points
Dan S
Dan S
1,966 Points

This has been solved! It was because I incorrectly named the class all as one word, without separating with underscores (as normal). So to get round it without destroying the class and starting again, you can specify the class as follows:

has_many :user_file_attachment, :class_name => 'UserFileAttachments'