Kevin, On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 07:50, Kevin <inspir...@gmail.com> wrote: > It'd be nice if http://datamapper.org/docs/associations included > mention of the name of the Resource table created, which keys/etc. Or > how to auto_migrate! it to get it created.. As is, its rather hard to > actually 'get started' with it. >
There is an actual 'Getting Started' section containing at least some of the information you mentioned above. Definitely not all tho, we'll see how to improve this. > More info also about the use of :child_key, :parent_key, and :model > options to associations. And any other options if I'm missing them, > its hard to find them :) > I just added some docs on declaring self referential many to many relationships. You can find some information in :child_key and :parent_key there, but I absolutely agree that this needs an own, more prominent place. http://datamapper.org/docs/associations > > As far as I can tell, there's no way to create something from a > belongs_to or a has 1 reference. You have to just do .new and pass > in :model => oldmodel? > You can just assign a new instance of the related object to any #belongs_to or #has(1,...) relationship. The API tries to express the fact that there's really only *one* object at the end of that relationship, therefore it makes sense to treat it (almost) just like any normal property. Calling #create (to me) implies that either you're adding to a collection (as is the case for SomeModel.create and person.tasks.create(...)) or you're doing some kind of factory method (close to what #new does). > Is create_and_destroy even linked to from anywhere? I hadn't seen it. It's linked from http://datamapper.org/docs/ as "Creating, Saving, Updating and Destroying records" > > The main 'why datamapper' page of the rdoc could use some organization > and links to areas of the source tha tinclude more documentation (if > any). http://rdoc.info/projects/datamapper/dm-core I agree, the "Why DataMapper" page needs work! > > Thanks for undertaking documentation updating! > No worries, thx for your inputs! > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DataMapper" group. > To post to this group, send email to datamap...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to datamap...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
