Question

I have two models of concern, “Order” and “Kit”; each order has_one :kit

Each “Kit” has a ‘cost’ value. Within a controller I want to be able to sum together the costs for each ‘order’.

Logically I thought this would make sense (but it doesn’t work):

@revenue = Order.Kit.sum(:cost) 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Example:

A user creates a new order for a kit which has cost of 20. I would like the @revenue to be of hence value 20 (reflecting ‘sales’). When someone else creates a new order for the same kit, @revenue should change to 40.

Answer 1

I’m guessing you have it backward, and each order has a kit_id.

. . . in which case you just need the number of orders for a given kit, multiplied by the kit cost:

kit = Kit.find(kit_id)
number_of_orders = Order.count(:all,:conditions=>['kit_id = ?',kit_id])
@revenue = kit.cost*number_of_orders