On Aug 9, 2:09 pm, Rahul <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Consider this scenario, I have a table which stores the > "likes" and it would stores the likes from all sorts of tables like > blogs,comments, postings, reviews, etc. So the table has the following > columns(id, like_id and type) where like_id is the id from any of the > previous mentioned tables and type would be single char column to > identify the foreign key table(B for blog, C for comments and so on). > How am i supposed to create the relation between like table and the > other tables?
Check out the :polymorphic option to belongs_to - it does exactly what you're describing, except for the (premature) "optimization" of storing a single character for the type. --Matt Jones -- 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.
