On 11 Jul 2009, at 17:55, Rick wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Frederick > Cheung<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Now I want to retrieve the team_id for the (opponent) inside the >>> schedules table. Each team plays approx. 12 opponents. So, I would >>> like to use an each statement to retrieve that bit of data at the >>> same >>> time I'm iterating through my table view... >>> >> >> Why not put the team_id for the opponent in the schedules table ? >> >> Fred > > It's possibly I'm hijacking this thread a bit because I'm still a > Rails noob, but couldn't opponent by of type Team in another > belongs_to relationship on schedule? Or is that a bad idea? If so, can > someone tell me how you'd model that? From an OO perspective you'd > have > > Team team; > Team opponent; > > would you just set up another belongs_to like: > > belongs_to :opponent, :class_name => "Team", :foreign_key => > "opponent_id" That's what I would do (except that the :foreign_key is redundant here: rails will default to #{association_name}_id for a belongs_to ) Fred > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
