ActiveScaffold and associations

Question

My model "combobox" has_many "comboboxselects", and "comboboxselects" belongs_to "combobox". Activescaffold of "comboboxes" displays data in comboboxselects-column like "#<Comboboxselect:0x472d25c>". How to make display the "answer" column from table "comboxselects"?

Models:

class Combobox < ActiveRecord::Base
 has_many :comboboxselects
end

class Comboboxselect < ActiveRecord::Base
 belongs_to :combobox
end

Schema:

  create_table "comboboxes", :force => true do |t|
   t.string   "question"
   t.datetime "created_at"
   t.datetime "updated_at"
  end

  create_table "comboboxselects", :force => true do |t|
   t.integer  "combobox_id"
   t.string   "answer"
   t.datetime "created_at"
   t.datetime "updated_at"
  end

Output:

class ComboboxesController < ApplicationController
 active_scaffold :combobox do |config|
   config.list.columns = [:id, :question]
   config.columns = [:question, :comboboxselects]
 end
end

class ComboboxselectsController < ApplicationController
 active_scaffold :comboboxselect  do |config|
   config.list.columns = [:id, :combobox, :answer]
   config.columns = [:answer]
 end
end

Thanks :)

Answer 1

When you say displays I assume you mean in a view? Can you post the code your running to get that output.

Looks to me like you just have Comboboxselect object, have you tried adding .answer to it to access the attribute you want?

Answer 2

First, you have to include all fields in config.column, no matter if u use it or not. Then in each model you have to declare this method in your model.

class Comboboxselect < ActiveRecord::Base
 belongs_to :combobox
 def to_label
  "#{answer}" 
 end
end