Question

I use association to map between my Store model and my Product model, using Store has_many :products and Product belongs_to :store. In this case, I can simply get store info and all products of the store using this simple code:

@store = Store.find_by_id params[:store_id]

But, I recently added a status field to products. This status is set by default to ON and when the user wants to destroy a product, this status is set to OFF instead of deleting the product on database.

But in this case, in the previous code, I get all products (whatever the product status is).

Question: How can I get store info AND ONLY products with :status => ‘ON’?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use default scope for your model

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  default_scope where(status: "on")
end

update:

You can skip default scope like that:

@store.products.unscoped

If you don’t want to use default scope you can try this:

@store.products.where(status: "on")