ruby script/generate model State

would make more sense instead of just creating the migration. In other words, you do need a State model.

i keep getting this:

rake aborted!
uninitialized constant CreateStates::State
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.0/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:492:in `const_missing’

Thanks for the state list

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Man, if you are not using those boxes, give me a password so I will put useful services on it

thanks

In my Thumbnail model I included belongs_to :person and in my Person model I had both has_one :photo and has_one :thumbnail. I got ride of belongs_to :person (in Thumbnail model) and got rid of has_one :thumbnail (in Person model) restarted the server and your example worked.

Given that I only have 1 Thumbnail per Photo I only need to do:
p.photo.thumbnails

I’m not sure why your photos aren’t showing thumbnails. Mine work fine. Maybe you could describe exactly what you mean by “does not work” ? Error? Empty set?

I do the same thing you’re trying to accomplish with your Person model, except mine is called User. I do something like

u = User.find 1
u.photos.first.thumbnails.first

using

class User
  has_many :photos
end

class Photo
  belongs_to :user
end

to give me the thumbnail. It sounds like you only have one Photo per Person, so you could probably do something like

p = Person.find 1
p.photo.thumbnails.first

Do a

class Person
  def thumbnail
    thumbnails.first
  end
end

to make your life a bit easier and allow

p = Person.find 1
p.photo.thumbnail

This is, of course, assuming you want only one Thumbnail per Photo.