Laravel 5 Querying Relationship - laravel

Question

Here is the relationship 1 code:
/**
*
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo
*/
public function address()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\IPAddress', 'group_id');
}
and relationship 2 code:
/**
*
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo
*/
public function group()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\IPGroups');
}
I want to get all ip addresses that belongs to specified group. I don't want to write raw queries, I need to be done with querying relationship. Does anyone has an idea?
I tried to do something like this:
/**
* Get IP Addresses of specified group
* #param Request $request
* #return mixed
*/
public function getIP(Request $request)
{
$group = IPGroups::findOrFail($request->group_id);
return $group->address;
}
but I need to add one where statement where I can pick only active ip addresses.
Here is the model 1 code:
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class IPGroups extends Model
{
/**
* Working Table
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'ip_groups';
/**
* Guarded Values From Mass Assignment
* #var array
*/
protected $guarded = [ 'id' ];
/**
*
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo
*/
public function address()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\IPAddress', 'group_id');
}
}
and the second model code:
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class IPAddress extends Model
{
/**
* Working Table
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'ips';
/**
* Protected Values From Mass Assignment
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [ 'group_id', 'ip', 'description', 'status' ];
/**
*
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo
*/
public function group()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\IPGroups');
}
}

Answer 1

Try this, getting only the addresses with status as 'Active':
return $group->address->where('status','Active');
The reason this doesn't work:
return $group->address->where('status','=','Active');
is that the where we are using here is the where of the class Collection, which doesn't accept a comparator as second parameter as the where of the Models do.