Question

Please help to understand how to do @project.payments having this tree:

Project
   |__Stages
         |__Costs
              |__Payments

project.rb

 has_many :stages
 has_many :costs, :through => stages

stage.rb

belongs_to :project
has_many :costs
has_many :payments :through => costs

cost.rb

belongs_to :stage
has_many :payments

payment.rb

belongs_to :cost

Answer 1

Note: As this is a nested has_many :through relationship, it’ll only work in Rails 3.1+ (RC4 of 3.1 is out)

project.rb

has_many :payments, :through => costs