2009/10/2 Andreas <[email protected]>: > > Hi > > I've just started looking into building a rails frontend to a database > project I've been working on but I need some help with how to convert > some parts of the database. > > The database got a bunch of tables each describing a different type of > entity and each of these entities can have several comments. I've > solved this by giving all entities an identifier through a master > identifier table (entityId1 --> masterId, entityId2 --> masterId) but > I can't think of any way to get this working in rails and also it's > kinda an ugly hack in my opinion. > > Any thoughts on this? Thought of using some sort of guid but most > people seem to think it's not worth it?
_If_ I understand I think you might want to look at polymorphic relationships. http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/howtos/db-relationships/polymorphic might be a good start. This would allow your different model types all to have comments without repeating the code everywhere. Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
