it seems that u have 2 goals in mind a) recipes b) ingredients since a dish consists of ingredients b and b itself of many b u should look into simple treebased appraoch:
ingredient: -id -parent_id -name -uom (=unit of measure) -qty (=quantity) On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 November 2011 17:51, Norbert Melzer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I hope I will have some time this week to think about this and to > > understand it all. > > Neither english nor ruby are my native languages and im still > > learning. Especially all about databases drives me crazy in regular. > > It took me about 3 hours this morning to get a "simple" has_many up > > and running. Migrating a thousand times or so back and forth. > > > > I never know where to put the belongs_to and where the has_many, or > > how to set up the migrations, where to use singular and where plural. > > I suggest that you work through some of the Rails Guides, start with > Getting Started and Active Record Associations. Also the one on > debugging will come in handy. Then work right through a good tutorial > such as railstutorial.org, which is free to use online. Then you > should have a better grasp of the fundamentals of Rails. > > 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. > > -- 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.
