Colin Law wrote: > On 16 August 2010 06:05, Sam Kong <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Here's a situation: >> A product belongs to multiple categories and the categories are top >> menus of a site. > > That does not make sense, do you mean product has_many categories, or > more likely category has_many products and product belongs_to > category.
Sorry. I was not clear about this. Product and Category are m:n relationship. Actually there's a Categoryship model. > >> I want to highlight the category of a product when the product detail >> page is loaded. >> If there's some context, I can determine which category should be >> highlighted. >> (For example, I can track the categories that a user selected). >> But sometimes there's no context (for example, the user visits the page >> directly without getting through categories). > > If you have a product, @product say, then the the category of the > product is @product.category, assuming you have setup the ActiveRecord > relationships correctly. > > Colin -- 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.
