[Rails] Re: Re: Child record becomes orphan

[Gerard]

Jake 

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> > ## With this line it works
> >       @company = Company.find(params[:id])
>
> This is the first time you initialize the "@company" instance.
Am I correct when I say that after a page rendering al instances are gone (as 
in removed from memory, or wherever)?

> I'm still a bit hung-over from last night, so forgive if I'm not
> answering the question correctly. :)
I know the feeling, but id didn't affect your answers so don't worry .. ;-)

> In your code above, you called Company.find(params[:id]) twice because
> you never stored the instance.  You could have done:
Interesting point (performance wise). Does that mean I also do two queries to 
the database?

> @company = Company.find(params[:id])
> if company.contacts.size > 0
>   flash[:notice] = 'This company has contacts.'
>   redirect_to :action => 'show_company', :id => @company.id
> else
>   @company.destroy
>   redirect_to :action => 'list_companies'
> end
>
>
> I don't recall right now, but I think you have to test
> company.contacts.size.  Your test above just checks "if
> company.contacts" which I think will always evaluate true even if there
> are no contacts.
Your brilliant, I figured that one out later, because a company without 
contacts also alerted that it would have contacts.

Learned a lot. Thanx!

Regards,

Gerard.

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