Many thanks for the reply. I shall give your model construct a try.
On Nov 10, 11:54 pm, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > STI support is still under construction, so you may hit some rough spots. > > That said, there are some ways to clean up the associations you've got. See > below. > > On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:16 AM, AncientHobo wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > Been working through the book. Find this really fascinating > > considering how much time I can save in future. Relatively new to Ruby/ > > Rails. Very new to Hobo. I shall appreciate if you could comment/ > > assist with what I am trying to do do. > > > I have two models (see) below. > > All's fine with migrate and the database but how do I get this to play > > on forms. > > > class Shipment < ActiveRecord::Base > > > hobo_model # Don't put anything above this > > > fields do > > no :string > > fname :string > > lname :string > > > phone :string > > mobile :string > > fax :string > > email :string > > > timestamps > > end > > > has_one :physical_address, :dependent => :destroy, :as > > => :addressable, :class_name => "Address", :conditions => > > "address_type = 'Physical'" > > Two thoughts on this: > > - Rails should do the type condition for you if you write this as: > > has_one :physical_address, :dependent => :destroy, :as => :addressable > > assuming you have a class: > > class PhysicalAddress < Address > end > > - it may make more sense to put the foreign key here, rather than on Address. > This allows Address records to be reused for multiple Shipments, *and* avoids > the complications that polymorphic associations bring. > > It would look like: > class Shipment < ActiveRecord::Base > ... > belongs_to :physical_address > ...etc > end > > class PhysicalAddress < Address > has_many :shipments > end > > --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" 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/hobousers?hl=en.
