Question

I have such angry associations: financings >- events >- subprograms >- programs. I want to get acces to last_financings from programs through all of them so code is:

class Fcp < Program
  has_many :fcp_subprograms,
           :foreign_key => 'parent_id'
  has_many :subprogram_last_actual_financings,
           :through => :fcp_subprograms,
           :source => :last_actual_financings

class FcpSubprogram < Program
  belongs_to :fcp,
             :class_name => 'Fcp',
             :foreign_key => 'parent_id'

  has_many :events,
           :foreign_key => 'fcp_id'

  has_many :last_actual_financings,
           :through => :events,
           :source => :last_actual_financings

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :fcp,
             :class_name => 'Fcp',
             :foreign_key => 'fcp_id'
  belongs_to :fcp_subprogram,
             :class_name => 'FcpSubprogram',
             :foreign_key => 'fcp_id'

  has_many :last_actual_financings,
           :class_name => 'ActualFinancing',
           :order => 'date DESC',
           :limit => 1

So when I want to access to subprogram_last_actual_financings in after_initialize function I get this error

Invalid source reflection macro :has_many :through for has_many :subprogram_last_actual_financings, :through => :fcp_subprograms.  Use :source to specify the source reflection.

but I have :source option in my associations. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The error you get is about source_reflection is an invalid association, because source for has_many through must be belongs_to, has_one or has_many without through option. So you can’t use :last_actual_financings as a source.