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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 3090

Fails to seed: db with association

Two models, Organization and Member, have a 1:many relationship. On basis of an earlier question, I added to my Organization model file:

validate  :check_member
  private
  def check_member
    if members.empty?
      errors.add(:base, 'User is not present')
    end
  end

As a result it only creates a new organization if also a member for that organization is created. I adjusted my seeds file accordingly since I would now be unable to create an organization without a member:

Organization.create!(   name: "Fictious business",
                        address: Faker::Address.street_address,
                        city: Faker::Address.city,
                        website: Faker::Internet.url,
                        subscription: true,
                        subs_exp_date: Faker::Date.forward(365),
                        actioncode: 111,
   members_attributes: [email: "[email protected]",
                        username: "helpzzzz", 
                        password: "foobar", 
                        password_confirmation: "foobar"])

However it fails to seed the above, giving the error message: "ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: User is not present" (referring to the error message defined in def check_member).

Does anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong?

UPDATE: It looks like it is something else that's creating the problem. In development I have no problem with seeding. However, seeding to Heroku is when the problem arises. By changing the seeds file, I have found out that when entering heroku run rake db:seed it is not seeding with the current, updated seeds file (while it is doing so, in development). It is using the old seeds file where the second part members_attributes was not included yet.

What could be the cause of this? A problem at Heroku's side? I've also tried heroku pg:reset DATABASE, heroku run rake db:migrate and then heroku run rake db:seed but it was still using an old seeds file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 469

Answers (1)

zwippie
zwippie

Reputation: 15515

Create the members first, then the organization:

member = Member.create!(email: ...)
Organization.create!(name: ..., members: [member])

Regarding Heroku: Did you push your latest changes to Heroku?

Upvotes: 2

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