I'm thinking about 4 models - User - Project - RecordOwner - UserProject -> this is the join table for user and project
You won't need RecordOwner if record_owners is a subset of the users association. Give us an example so we can help out with the options you want. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Lille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to specify relationships between two classes like that > expressed in the following pseudocode: > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :projects > end > > class Project < ActiveRecord::Base > > has_one :primary_record_owner, :<pseudo_option_for_referring_to>=>"User" > has_many :record_owners, :<pseudo_option_for_referring_to>=>"User" > has_many :users # this refers to User, too > end > > From the above I seek the following kind of results: > > @user.projects # returns all projects associated with the user from > any of the three User associations in Project > @project.primary_record_owner # returns the User instance > @project.record_owners # returns the collection of User instances > @project.users # returns User instances, not necessarily overlapping > with the other associations > > The intent I mean to express is that a Project can have any of three > levels of relationship with a User, while a User has only one level of > association with a Project. > > I was thinking HABTM, but I don't see how to get my desired > '@user.projects' result from that. > > Any helpful comment would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Lille > > -- > 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. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.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.
