i had not thought of a polymorphic association. works good and does what i needed.
Ar Chron wrote: > Gone Sail wrote: >> right this sounds like what i need to do. so your association tables (AB >> and AC) have their own unique ids? Xlink is the polymorphic link from AB >> and AC to the X table elements? so the Xlink table will have an >> xlinkable type and id along with the X table id? thanks. > > Yup. > > AB or AC would have: > id > a_id > b_id or c_id > plus other fields > > xlink would have: > id (the xlink record id) > x_id (the id of the related X record) > xlinkable_id (this is the id of the AB/AC join record) > xlinkable_type (this is the class name "AB"/"AC" of the join record) -- Posted via http://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.
