I have tree tables
- books
- bookmarks
- users开发者_Go百科
where there is a n to m relation from books to users trough bookmarks.
Im looking for a query, where I get all the books of a certain user including the bookmarks. If no bookmarks are there, there should be a null included...
my sql statement looks like:
SELECT * FROM `books`
LEFT OUTER JOIN `bookmarks `
ON bookmarks.book_id = books.id
AND bookmarks.user_id = ?
In rails I only know the :include statement, but how can I add the second bookmarks.user_id = ? statement in the ON section of this query? if I put it in the :conditions part, no null results would get returned!
Thanks! Markus
Add the following associations to your models:
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :bookmarks
has_many :users, :through => :bookmarks
end
# assuming bookmarks table has book_id and user_id columns.
class Bookmark < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :book
belongs_to :user
end
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :bookmarks
has_many :books, :through => :bookmarks
end
Now you can make following calls:
u.books # books for a user
u.bookmarks # bookmarks for a user
# find the user and eager load books and bookmarks
User.find(params[:id], :include => [:books, :bookmarks])
b.users # users for a book
b.bookmarks # bookmarks for a book
# find the book and eager load users and bookmarks
Book.find(params[:id], :include => [:users, :bookmarks])
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