On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Tim Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi I am Tim Dunn and am working on a web app to help people research > their family history. I am wondering how to merge records from the same > table into one record based on if they are exact or partial matches in > any given set of fields.
You might want to check out this plugin: http://github.com/collectiveidea/merger Right now it doesn't have any of the logic for picking which which fields to keep, but it will merge all the associations to the oldest model and delete the newer ones. @person1.merge(@person2, @person3) -- Brandon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Training by Collective Idea: Refer a friend and get $100 http://training.collectiveidea.com – San Antonio, TX – Jan 20-23 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
