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On May 18, 11:02 am, chewmanfoo <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to second this request - > I found myself fleshing out a lot of the details of my data base > structure using categories, salutations, image_types etc tables, which > I could then populate via a scaffold, and select in other tables using > a collection select. The problem is, when you want to go back and > alphabetize the categories list, for example, you get the record id's > changing, and then an object with a category_id of 12 is now pointing > to a different category than it was before (since you reordered the > table), which forces you to create after_save actions to update all > the objects that reference the categories table. > > But if categories were in an xml/yml file, then their database table > id would be irrelevant etc. > > On May 18, 9:54 am, Scott Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm probably being really dumb but I can never figure this out. > > > I want to store things like categories, salutations, image type etc etc > > but it seems dumb to create a database table for each of these. > > > Is there any way I store this structured data in XML or YML so I can > > still call: > > > asset.category.name etc? > > > Thanks! > > > Scott > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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.
