Listing the names of associated models

Question

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments
  belongs_to :category
end

Is there a class method for Article with which I can retrieve a l

Answer 1

You want ActiveRecord::Reflection::ClassMethods#reflect_on_all_associations

So it would be:

 Article.reflect_on_all_associations

And you can pass in an optional parameter to narrow the search down, so:

 Article.reflect_on_all_associations(:has_many)

 Article.reflect_on_all_associations(:belongs_to)

Keep in mind that if you want the list of all the names of the models you can do something like:

Article.reflect_on_all_associations(:belongs_to).map(&:name)

This will return a list of all the model names that belong to Article.