Raise an exception on unknown primary key inside AssociationReflection.

An association between two models cannot be made if a relevant key is
unknown, so fail fast rather than generating invalid SQL. Fixes #3207.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/errors.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/errors.rb
index ad7d8cd63c..96870cb338 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/errors.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/errors.rb
@@ -169,4 +169,17 @@ module ActiveRecord
       @errors = errors
     end
   end
+
+  # Raised when a primary key is needed, but there is not one specified in the schema or model.
+  class UnknownPrimaryKey < ActiveRecordError
+    attr_reader :model
+
+    def initialize(model)
+      @model = model
+    end
+
+    def message
+      "Unknown primary key for table #{model.table_name} in model #{model}."
+    end
+  end
 end