I'm finding that "has_many X , :through"
might work... and that terminology wise: my "Valued Edge List" == rails' "Rich Associations" for question/problem 2. But there is still the problem (question 1) of the potentially overwhelming amount of check boxes for HABTM & HM:T relationships. Does anybody know of a workaround? some other way to display other than .form_ui = :select ? On Aug 13, 6:12 pm, dschruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Totally new to Ruby & Rails & Active Scaffold this week! But I'm > cruising along pretty well. > > Two important questions which I didn't have the patience to dig > through the forum to find answers for are: > > 1) I'm able to get many to many tables working just fine both with the > full records of the other table and it's "create another" & "add > existing" default functionality AND the checkboxes functionality > using "config.columns[:other_table].ui_type = :select" > > My question is, can't I get something in-between these two extremes? > I don't like the way the default (show the whole record) version runs > way off the right side of the browser (when there are lots of fields) > and how there are big gaps between records when I'm using a "note" > text field. The checkbox solution, is similarlly problematic when > there is lots of data. > > Are more than just these two ways for the user interface to connect > many to many table records. > > 2) I'm wondering if its possible to use a valued edgelist (sorry to > whip out my graph theory jargon on you: its basically just the > connector table with an additional column for a value which describes > the one of the many possible relationships between two many-to-many > related table records). I haven't really tried just adding a new > column to my intermediate table yet but I'm guessing based on the only > two m2m outputs that I know of (described in #1 above) , it probably > wouldn't do anything automatically. > > For example if I have a table called Reaction and another called > Analysis... but sometimes Analyses are carried out on a *mix* of two > reactions. But I would like to keep track of the amount drawn from > each Reaction that are eventually mixed and Analyzed > > So does anybody know if this is possible (without creating seperate > models and controllers for the intermediate M2M table? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ActiveScaffold : Ruby on Rails plugin" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
