You want the acts_as_list and accessible on the join table, not the
end table.  that way, each item can be sorted per document.

On Jun 9, 9:08 am, Ronbo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am still very new to Hobo, and learning mostly through trial and
> error. I have been creating small throw-away apps to explore and test
> things out.
>
> I do have a serious app in mind though, and I am trying to figure out
> how to implement a specific workflow in which users will create new
> documents and add boilerplate text pieces to them from a predefined
> set. Since documents will have many pieces and a piece can belong to
> many documents, my first hunch is that I would use a
>
> has_many :through => x, :accessible => true
>
> sort of relationship, with the pieces as children of the document
> model. Users could create a new doc and add the pieces they want.
> Where I am having problems prototyping this is that the pieces in the
> doc should be sortable. I've hunted through the hobo and rails forums
> and can't find a recipe for how to make acts_as_list work with a
> joined many-to-many sort of relationship.
>
> Is this possible? If so, is there a better way of defining the
> relationship or some special magic to getting it working through a
> join?
>
> Any hints are much appreciated.

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