Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way and with that - hopefully someone can either suggest a simpler way or the right way.
I have a Quote model - for all intents and purposes, just say it has one attribute :price. I want to be able to add the following self-referential attributes (which I *think* should be under a has_many, through) Quotes has_many requotes through... something When a quote is made it's attached to a specific job and locked. When a similar job comes in, I want to take the original quote, duplicate it and update it to match the specs of the new job; the old quote still intact and both having a knowledge of their "parent-child" relationship. I've looked at Ryan Bates latest railscast on self referential relationships but that doesn't seem to solve the whole problem. Say I have quote_id 3 which has been requoted 3 different times. I then go back and requote one of those, say quote #4.. (check the "hopefully understandable" chart below) quote#3 =quote#4 ==quote#7 =quote#5 =quote#6 quote 3 has 3 children and its first child has a child. now say I delete quote 4... quote 7 doesn't know who its proverbial daddy is. and quote 3 doesn't know it has any grandchildren. in theory, i'd like 3&7 to link up when the link between them breaks. any takers on this one? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
