you need the method on the controller for it, I can't remember if it's
something special or just standard update methods.

On Jun 9, 12:41 pm, Ronbo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Do you mean something like:
>
> class Activity < ActiveRecord::Base
>    has_many :unit_activities, :order => :position
>    has_many :units, :through => :unit_activities
>
> ....
>
> class UnitActivity < ActiveRecord::Base
>    belongs_to :activity
>    belongs_to :unit
>    acts_as_list :scope => :activity
>
> ...
> class Unit < ActiveRecord::Base
>    has_many :unit_activities
>    has_many :activities, :through => :unit_activities
>
> class ActivityHints < Hobo::ViewHints
>   children :units
>
> This generates a <collection:units param/> tag for the Activities show
> page. If I manually change it to <sortable-collection:units param/>, I
> get the following error:
>
> undefined method `reorder_units_url'
>
> Am I missing the gist of what you mean, or am I missing a step? Do I
> need to pass something to sortable-collection?
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Jun 9, 1:32 pm, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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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