On 18 October 2011 13:09, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 Oct 2011 12:56, "Chris" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There are some Meals and each meal has many sides. >> >> But it's only this single direction - so a side don't need to belong >> to the meal. I don't wanna search: "Give me the meals where side >> is ..." >> >> So one Side could be associated with many meals. >> >> But I'm not shure how to create this with active Record. >> > > You want a habtm relationship, or a :through a join model (named like > 'Siding' to demonstrate its intention to link Side to something). > Consider also that i may order two sides of the same item with one main... > you need a join table to model that.
Also have a look at the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord Associations. That may help to clarify things. Colin -- 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.
