Sounds like a many to many relationship, in which case you need to declare has_and_belongs_to_many on both people and children. The relationship then works through a join table. If you did this, you'd need to re think your model a little and your find and add problems would be different. Martin
On Jan 26, 9:18 am, James Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 2 tables: > > people (id, name) > children (id, parents_id, child_id) > > parents_id = people.id and child_id = people_id also > > So how I make a relationships in Rails? > > And how can all search: > > Children.find(:all, :conditions => ["parents.name LIKE 'Clin%' ???? Or > how??? > > And what if I want to add new child. Parents name is in people table, > but childs not, so how I do? > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
