I think you can dispense with Company altogether and just have an association class describing a User's relationship to an Account:
``` Account has_many :users, :through => :memberships User belongs_to :account Membership belongs_to :user belongs_to :account has_one :role # agent, owner, etc. ``` ~ jf -- John Feminella Principal Consultant, BitsBuilder LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnxf SO: http://stackoverflow.com/users/75170/ On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 16:20, Leonel *.* <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Fred! > > The reason of this setup (might need some adjusting) is that an Account > has an attribute paying_method. So only the account_owner is the one > that pays. > > The account owner can add, edit or delete Companies and Users. He's the > administrator for that Account. > > The Users under the account owner's Company, are kinda like managers or > agents. > > The Users under other than the account owner's company are customers. > > __________________________________________ > ACCOUNT OWNER AND AGENTS > __________________________________________ > So let's say Tom is the account owner. > His company is Landscaping Solutions. > He pays the app. > ----------------------------------------------------- > Users under his company (agents) can open, modify and close tickets. > Tom (user, role: account owner) > Rick (user, role: agent) > Pam (user, role:agent) > ----------------------------------------------------- > > ___________________________________________________ > CUSTOMERS > ____________________________________________________ > So Tom invites other creates companies and invites users. > Customers can only open tickets. > ---------------------------------------------------- > Goliath National Bank (company) > Barney (user, role: customer) > Marshall (user, role: customer) > > Mobious Designs (company) > Ted (user, role: customer) > ------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
