I'm using single table inheritance so my models Student and Teacher inherit from the same Devise model User (attributes are the same, only the relationships to other models are different).
Now I was trying to display data from an instance of the model QuizSession, which has a one to one relationship with Teacher and a one to many relationship with Student, but I keep getting the error: undefined local variable or method 'users' for #< QuizSession:0xb48e740 >
.
Here are my models:
# app/models/user.rb:
class User < ApplicationRecord
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
:recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
belongs_to :quiz_session, optional: true
# Which users subclass the User model
def self.types
%w(Teacher Student)
end
# Add scopes to the parent models for each child model
scope :teachers, -> { where(type: 'Teacher') }
scope :students, -> { where(type: 'Student') }
end
# app/models/teacher.rb:
class Teacher < User
end
# app/models/student.rb:
class Student < User
end
# app/models/quiz_session.rb:
class QuizSession < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :quiz
has_one :teacher
has_many :students
delegate :teachers, :students, to: :users #<-- this is apparently where the error occurs
end
EDIT: The problem seems to occur when I try to call @quiz_session.students
. While the correct QuizSession record is found, apparently it can't resolve .students? I don't understand why, because the User model does have an attribute quiz_session_id
which the student model should inherit.
Change this line:
delegate :teachers, :students, to: :users
To this:
delegate :teachers, :students, to: :user
The reason for this change is because your model is User, not Users.