Hi, It's important to get your model right in your head first if that's the way you're doing it (and it seems you are).
So, in your case, the items are: 1. A catalogue-like product that doesn't exist, but represents the product under question (much like a class is to an object). An Abstract Product if you will. For example, "Ford Festiva" as a class of things would be one of these. 2. An actual product. A Concrete Product if you will. This would be a particular Ford Festiva which has some special options about it : maybe the air con option, and it is in red, with hotted up wheels. (ie a particular configuration) 3. A LineItem which represents one single item on an invoice, and links to the particular item (ie the concrete product). 4. An Invoice which has many line items My next comment would most likely be that if you're a total noob, this is a very complicated thing to start with. Second - the books? I'd recommend The Ruby way. Are you a beginning programmer or just a beginning rubyist? Julian ---------------------------------------------- Check out Julian Leviston's music released under the moniker Digital Smart Ar se Erste Zeit album released 16 Sep 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/erste-zeit/id393326346 On 23/02/2012, at 11:29 AM, Kisha wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I'm completely new to ruby. I'm building my 1st little app to aid the > learning process (nothing like learning by doing) and to support > others who want to raise a little seed money to fund traction efforts > without equity or debt strings attached I'm plugging away trying to > learn the basics of Rails for the last couple of weeks and have > realized that I simply to don't know enough Ruby, to truly build what > I'm trying to build. > > I need help with two things: > > #1 - Can you all recommend your Top 3 "must have" books that will help > me become more proficient with in the actual language of ruby and ruby > recipes. Suggestions on books that aid in exploring Active Record in > depth would also be humbly appreciated. > > #2 - As mentioned, I'm building a little store. I'm trying to allow > users to select a unique size for the t-shirt. I'm using version 3.2.1 > > I've created a model called product_variation and tried to use the > new 'store' -- i.e., ActiveRecord::Base.store for declaring simple > single-column key/value stores (which I think is new in 3.2.1) > THEN I even an entire whole scaffold, called product_instance - to > sit between product & line_item to attempt to create a "special > instance of the product" (i.e., category -> product -> > product_instance -> line_item -> cart -> order). > > No luck in making the actual connection. I know this has EVERYTHING to > do with me being new to the language, but If could get a little > guidance on how to resolve this it would be extremely appreciated. > > GIT HUB: Here is my git hub link https://github.com/kisha/seedtp_alpha2 > (the tag for the sizes is there but the logic behind it is blowing up) > HEROKU: Here is yesterday's version of the site on heroku (made a > few adjustments but just so that you have a visual) > http://stproject.herokuapp.com > > Again, Thanks in advance for the help > > Sincere Regards, > Kisha > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
