Question

How to get the list of associations defined for a model.

Something like:

class AuthorModel
  has_many :pages, :class_name => PageModel
end

class PageModel
  belongs_to :author, :class_name => AuthorModel
end

AuthorModel assocs extracted:

[ :has_many, :pages, PageModel, [:id, :author_id] ]

PageModel assocs extracted:

[ :belongs_to, :author, AuthorModel, [:author_id, :id] ]

Also need many-to-many assocs extracted.

Iterated through model methods and did not found any method that could help me doing this.

Answer 1

Here is a way to get an array of all associated objects:

AuthorModel.reflect_on_all_associations