Question

I have one stupid question.

I have 2 tables in DB, and in one table (example: report) I have foreign key from table “warehouse”. I want to get the name of warehouse in my report.

I used this method to find something from other table:

@report = ReportMain.find(params[:id])

@warehouse = Warehouse.find(@report.warehouse_id).name

My question is, there is some simplest way to do this?

Answer 1

Depending on the relation between these tables:

@warehouse = @report.warehouse

Would work if a Warehouse belongs_to to a Report, and a Report has_one or has_many Warehouse. Be sure to check out the Association Basics in the Ruby on Rails guides, it’s an awesome read.