检索 AR 模型的所有关联属性？

您认为检索 AR 模型所有关联的所有属性的最佳方法是什么？

即：假设我们有模型Target.

class Target < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :countries
  has_many :cities
  has_many :towns
  has_many :colleges
  has_many :tags

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :countries, :cities, ...
end

我想通过调用 Target 实例上的方法来检索所有关联的属性：

target.associations_attributes
>> { :countries => { "1" => { :name => "United States", :code => "US", :id => 1 }, 
                     "2" => { :name => "Canada", :code => "CA", :id => 2 } },
     :cities => { "1" => { :name => "New York", :region_id => 1, :id => 1 } },
     :regions => { ... },
     :colleges => { ... }, ....
   }

目前，我通过迭代每个关联，然后迭代关联的每个模型来完成这项工作，但这有点昂贵，您认为我可以如何优化它？

请注意：我意识到你不能打电话target.countries_attributes on has_many与 的关联nested_attributes, one_to_one协会允许打电话target.country_attributes

我不清楚你所说的迭代所有关联是什么意思。您已经在使用反射了吗？

仍然好奇是否有更简洁的方法，但这就是我能想到的，这或多或少会导致您在示例中显示的哈希值：

class Target < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :tags

  def associations_attributes
    # Get a list of symbols of the association names in this class
    association_names = self.class.reflect_on_all_associations.collect { |r| r.name }
    # Fetch myself again, but include all associations
    me = self.class.find self.id, :include => association_names
    # Collect an array of pairs, which we can use to build the hash we want
    pairs = association_names.collect do |association_name|
      # Get the association object(s)
      object_or_array = me.send(association_name)
      # Build the single pair for this association
      if object_or_array.is_a? Array
        # If this is a has_many or the like, use the same array-of-pairs trick
        # to build a hash of "id => attributes"
        association_pairs = object_or_array.collect { |o| [o.id, o.attributes] }
        [association_name, Hash[*association_pairs.flatten(1)]]
      else
        # has_one, belongs_to, etc.
        [association_name, object_or_array.attributes]
      end
    end
    # Build the final hash
    Hash[*pairs.flatten(1)]
  end
end

这是一个 IRB 会议script/console展示它是如何工作的。首先，一些环境：

>> t = Target.create! :name => 'foobar'
=> #<Target id: 1, name: "foobar">
>> t.tags.create! :name => 'blueish'
=> #<Tag id: 1, name: "blueish", target_id: 1>
>> t.tags.create! :name => 'friendly'
=> #<Tag id: 2, name: "friendly", target_id: 1>
>> t.tags
=> [#<Tag id: 1, name: "blueish", target_id: 1>, #<Tag id: 2, name: "friendly", target_id: 1>]

这是新方法的输出：

>> t.associations_attributes
=> {:tags=>{1=>{"id"=>1, "name"=>"blueish", "target_id"=>1}, 2=>{"id"=>2, "name"=>"friendly", "target_id"=>1}}}