My current application is for picture albums. These picture albums are 
oraganized/created as per the location. I am just doing it for my 
learning purpose. I am trying to make a user management plugin for it. 
The basic application worked with no plugin is working fine.


Initially I had models like this:

class Album < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :title, :state_id
  validates_uniqueness_of :title
  has_many :photos
  belongs_to :state
end

class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :album
end

class State < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :name, :country_id
  has_many :albums
  belongs_to :country
  has_many :users
end

class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :name
  validates_uniqueness_of :name
  has_many :states
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :username, :password_hash, :password_salt, 
:role_id
  validates_uniqueness_of :username
  belongs_to :state
  belongs_to :role
  before_destroy :dont_delete_admin
end

class Role < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :name
  validates_uniqueness_of :name
  before_destroy :dont_destroy_admin
  has_many :users
end


Now for making a plugin I placed my user, role, state, country model in 
the vendor/plugins/user_test/lib/app/models directory. However, placing 
entire model class in the plugins/models directory may not work. Since 
tomorrow the application could be for songs related to particular 
location. So for the state model placing this line 
plugins/models/state.rb- 'has_many albums' does not make any sense.

So can I place part of my model definition in the plugin and then one 
can modify the albums and state models. This is not a good idea 
though... Basically I don't know how should I proceed given this 
situation. Any help?

-
Amita.


Maurício Linhares wrote:
> And what`s the problem?
> 
> Doing it is quite straightforward after you have the list of timezones
> based on states :)
> 
> -
> Maur�cio Linhares
> http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/ 
> (en)
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Amita Bhatkhande

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