Hi, I'm new to Ruby, having been doing a lot of reading over the last several weeks and just starting to try out a few things. I have a project that I would like to do, but I'm not sure what's the best way to accomplish the relationships that would like to do. The project is kind of a contact management application that goes further down the path in certain areas. Vague, I know, but there real question is:
A contact can belong to one or more categories and, with some of those categories (but not all), additional information is required and/or desired to be collected, including foreign keys to other tables. I have been reading through Agile Web Development and my situation is somewhat like the single table inheritance (STI) example provided, though extracted one layer. That is, in the STI example, a person could exist in only one of the categories. A more concrete example would be, say, that for a school, a contact can be an inquiry, an applicant, a student, a teacher, a mentor, etc. In this scenario, a person could be a student and a mentor at the same time. Data is collected for applicants and when they are approved, they become a student (their application data is retained). A student has other specific information to be collected and can be linked to other data in the system. TIA. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
