Wow, You just opened up a whole new world for me. Thank you.
On Nov 19, 7:00 pm, Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eli Gibson wrote: > > I am curious is there is a convention for the the following in CRUD: > > > I have users and groups. Each group can have many users, and each user > > can have many groups. > > These are related through a has_many :through pattern, with the > > connecting model being membership. > > > The most common uses of these data are to get a list of groups for one > > user, or a list of users for one group, or to check if two users are > > in the same group. > > > What would be the best way to set up the controllers so that these > > uses are easy and intuitive. Or, what setup would make it easiest for > > the next developer to grok the system when I get hit by a bus. > > > Regards, > > > Eli > > Hi Eli, > > The great thing about RESTful development is that you can set up > multiple resources to access the same controller. So you could do > something like: > > map.resources :users, :has_many => :user_groups > map.resources :user_groups, :has_many => :users > > The being said you controller and views need to be flexible enough to > allow for a parent record to be present or not. I would recommend taking > a look at the resource_controller plugin for this, it gives you all > kinds of nifty methods for dealing with this. > > Then to make all of this work I would do something like this in your > models: > > has_many :user_groups, :through => :memberships > > Now your interface can be set up however you want, and flexible enough > to access the data from both ends: > > users/2/user_groups > user_groups/2/users > > Hope this helps. > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
