I want to do that way because i must save the possible mandates in one table. Then i use an other table to save the relation between mandates and users. How can i do that with an other way ? thanks for your answer adrien
On Jun 28, 4:22 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > Adrien Nom wrote: > > Hi, > > > I need to do a polymorphic association but i want to save the field > > XXX_type in an other table, like that : > > [...] > > > Table: ELECTED > > - id > > - user_id > > - mandate_id > > - place_id -> id of CITY.id or STATES.id depending on > > MANDATES.place_type related by mandate_id > > > How can I do that with rails ?? > > Why do you want to do it that way? It seems like extra work for no good > reason. Worse, it's poor DB design. Since place_id and place_type are > so intimately related, they belong in the same table. In this case that > probably means that place_id should go in mandates. > > [...] > > > Adrien > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

