Question

I have a category with a list of items. The items have a position and the category has a relationship has_many :items, :order => “position”. When a user updates a position value, I want to see its position. My position is a float to allow moving between rounded numbers.

pos=item.category.items.map(&:id)
current_position=pos.index(id.to_i)
item.save # want to refresh the relationship here
pos_new=item.categoty.items.map(&:id)
# grabbing this since just accessing item isn't updated if positioning has changed
item_new=Item.find(id)
pos_new=item_new.category.items.map(&:id)
new_position=pos_new.index(id)
if current_position!=new_position
  is_moved=true # sent back in JSON to propagate a dynamic change.
end

The above works but it seems really verbose. Is there a way for me to tell on item save that the category relationship needs to be refreshed since the order could be changed?

Answer 1

You can use item.reload that will refetch the model from the database and next time you call an association, it will refetch it.