On Jul 19, 9:59 pm, Solidify <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I have a simple question: > > an author has a place of birth and a place of death. Both places > should come from the same table (cities). This should be a > many_to_many relationship, because one author may be born in the same > city where the other author dies. > If I were you I'd have two belongs_to associations, one for the birthplace and one for the death location. I don't think many-to-many is appropriate, unless multiple locations can be associated with a person's birth/death
Fred > Now in the authors-table, one city_id would not be enough, it has to > be two fields, one for birth, one for death. but then, the > @author.city would not work anymore. Could anyone give me a hint how > to solve this? -- 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.
