Ask A Question

Notifications

You’re not receiving notifications from this thread.

Polymorphic association via concern giving undefined method relation_delegate_class

Tom Iwaniec asked in Rails

Not sure if the forum is a good place to ask technical questions like this, but I have a heartable concern that I will be applying to several models:

module Heartable
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern

    included do
        has_many :hearts, as: :heartable, dependent: :destroy
        has_many :hearters, through: :hearts, source: "user"

        ...
    end
end

Heart.rb:

class Heart < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :heartable, polymorphic: true
  validates :user, uniqueness: { scope: [:heartable_id ,:heartable_type],
    message: "You've already loved this!" }
end

Listing.rb (one of the heartable types):

class Listing < ApplicationRecord
      include Heartable
end

And finally in User.rb:

has_many :hearts, dependent: :destroy
has_many :heartables, through: :hearts, source_type: "Heartable" #this is the problematic line

Everything works in the association (User.hearts, Heartable.hearts, Heartable.hearters) except for User.heartables, which returns:
NoMethodError: undefined method `relation_delegate_class' for Heartable:Module

If I change the association in User.rb to:

has_many :heartables, through: :hearts, source: "heartable"

User.heartables returns:
ActiveRecord::HasManyThroughAssociationPolymorphicSourceError: Cannot have a has_many :through association 'User#heartables' on the polymorphic object 'Heartable#heartable' without 'source_type'. Try adding 'source_type: "Heartable"' to 'has_many :through' definition.

If I change the association in User.rb to:

has_many :heartables, through: :hearts, source_type: "Listing"

Then it will work, but defeats the purpose of having the association on a concern so that I can easily apply it to other models.

Thanks for your time!

Reply
Join the discussion
Create an account Log in

Want to stay up-to-date with Ruby on Rails?

Join 87,563+ developers who get early access to new tutorials, screencasts, articles, and more.

    We care about the protection of your data. Read our Privacy Policy.