ActiveRecord :through to set default values on through table.
- by Dmitriy Likhten
I would like to set a default value in a has_many through association.
Lets say I have three models:
People
Friends
Dogs
A person can request that a dog becomes their friend.
So a person would create an association where friends has an active column = false.
User
has_many :friends
has_many :dogs, :through => :friends
Now when I assign a dog to a user
User.find(1).dogs << dog
The friends table has null in the active column.
My friends model is defined as
Friend
def initialize(args = {})
super(args)
active = false
end
yet this does not work because the friend object is never created. Do I have to manually create one?
