I'm pretty newb and trying to get a handle on setting up a particular relationship with my models.
For sake of this discussion (real app isn't with tools but for illustration, using tools): To start with (more complicated in a bit); - A User can have multiple tools - A single tool can only belong to one ToolGroup - A User can belong to multiple ToolGroups To model this relationship, I was thinking: User has_many :tools has_and_belong_to_many :tool_groups Tool has_one :tool_group belongs_to :user ToolGroup has_and_belongs_to_many :users So first question, is the above set up correctly? Once the above is set up correctly, I want to have it set up where a ToolGroup can also be 'owned' by a User. In other words, a user will set up a ToolGroup and they are the owner, but other users can belong to this ToolGroup. How do I model that? Do I need to set up another model that is called "Owner" that is really a "User"? This doesn't seem right. In reality the db table "ToolGroup" would just need an "ownerID" that would be a fk to the User table, but I'm not sure how to model that since ToolGroup already has a HABTM to users. Can I have a HABTM to Users and also a belongs_to :User? Thanks for any help -- 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.
