You could possibly do this, but why would you want to? You'll probably want to look into the ActiveRecord docs related to virtual attributes, and possibly serialized fields.
But again, WHY? The foreign key -> parent relation is practically as old as databases, and going against that current is only going to land you on TheDailyWTF... --Matt Jones On Mar 27, 5:33 pm, "Paul A." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to make a relation using a different way then the classic > belongs_to/has_many association. Instead of this, I would like to save > the foreign key in the parent class as a list of ids. > > For instance, we can consider 2 models: File and Folder. > Basically, we could add in File model this method: folder_id. > > But can we do the same with a list of file's ids stored in this folder's > method: file_ids? > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
