Automatically set child.parent_id when parent.children<< child ?

Question

How to do that with ActiveRecord? My code:

p = Product.create
l = Label.create
p.labels.add << l

But I get l.parent == nil

  create_table "labels", :force => true do |t|
    t.integer  "product_id"
  end

Answer 1

Some code from you would be appropriate, since what you're asking should be working automatically.

class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :children
end

class Child < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :parent
end

If your code doesn't resemble that, then please post a more specific question.

Edit: Does your Product model have any validations in it? They aren't going to pass your code above, and you aren't checking the return value from create, so you'll never know.

Answer 2

You could use acts_as_tree for this: http://github.com/rails/acts_as_tree