无法保存自引用多对多关系

时间:2012-12-08 12:02:09

标签: ruby-on-rails ruby-on-rails-3 formtastic activemodel

我是Rails的新手并且正在努力获得一个用于保存的formtastic形式 - 数据库不断回滚插入而没有任何明显的解释。

我有一个PublishedItem和一个Citation。每个PublishedItem都可以通过Citation对其他PublishedItems进行多次引用 - 这里是(剥离的)PublishedItem模型:

    class PublishedItem < ActiveRecord::Base

      attr_accessible :date_published, 
              :author_ids,
              :cited_published_item_ids,
              :citing_published_item_ids

      has_many :authorships
      has_many :authors, through: :authorships, order: "last_name, first_name"

      has_many :citations, 
        foreign_key: "citing_published_item_id", 
        class_name: "Citation", 
        dependent: :destroy

      has_many :cited_published_items, 
        through: :citations, 
        source: :cited

      has_many :reverse_citations, 
        foreign_key: "cited_published_item_id", 
        class_name: "Citation", 
        dependent: :destroy

      has_many :citing_published_items, 
        through: :reverse_citations, 
        source: :citing

还有其他关系,但我只包含一个用于比较目的:作者关系,与另一个表更典型的关系,作者保存得当。这只是我自己有问题的自我引用。

以下是引文模型:

    class Citation < ActiveRecord::Base

      attr_accessible :citation_type, :cited_id, :citing_id

      belongs_to :citing, 
        class_name: "PublishedItem", 
        foreign_key: "citing_published_item_id"

      belongs_to :cited, 
        class_name: "PublishedItem", 
        foreign_key: "cited_published_item_id"

表(postgresql):

    CREATE TABLE citations
    (
      id serial NOT NULL,
      citing_published_item_id integer,
      cited_published_item_id integer,
      citation_type character varying(255),
      created_at timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
      updated_at timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,
      CONSTRAINT published_item_citations_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id )
    )
    WITH (
      OIDS=FALSE
    );

new.html.erb表单(摘录):

    <%= semantic_form_for @published_item do |f| %>
      <%= f.semantic_errors %>
      <%= f.inputs do %>
        <%= f.input :title %>
        <%= f.input :authors, as: :select, 
           collection: Author.find(:all, order: "last_name ASC, first_name ASC") %>
        <%= f.input :cited_published_items, as: :select, 
           collection: PublishedItem.find(:all, order: "title ASC") %>
      <% end %>
      <%= f.actions do %>
        <%= f.action :submit, button_html: { class: "btn btn-primary" } %>
        <%= f.action :cancel, button_html: { class: "btn btn-default" } %>
      <% end %>

我希望发生并且似乎无法实现的是引用另一个传递给新的PublishedItem表单的PublishedItem,并将记录插入到Citations中,原始的PublishedItem为referenced_published_item,新的PublishedItem为citing_published_item 。但我很难过。每当我在选择列表中选择一个PublishedItem时,查询就会回滚。作者(和其他M:M)正常工作。

非常感谢任何帮助。

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

尝试这样的事情 -

控制器:

def new
  @published_item = PublishedItem.new
  @published_item.citations.build
end

PublishedItem模型:

accepts_nested_attributes_for :citations
# i noticed your accessible foreign keys were set wrong here
attr_accessible :citation_type, 
                :cited_published_item_id, 
                :citing_published_item_id

表格:

<%= semantic_form_for @published_item do |form| %>
  # published_item fields
  <%= form.fields_for :citations do |citation_subform| %>
    <%= citation_subform.select :cited_published_item_id,
          options_for_select( 
            PublishedItem.order(:title).map{|p|[p.title,p.id]} 
          ) %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

你希望你的表单能够传递这样的结构:

{published_item : 
  {citations_attributes: 
    [
      {cited_published_item_id: xxx}
    ]
  }
}