A little help with associations

Rails
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I know this is an easy question for a software developer but I’m new
to this so I’d really appreciate a little help in designing
associations. The basic models I have created are listed below but I’m
having a little trouble in linking the location (addresses)
information to where it is needed in each of the other models. This is
illustrated in two places:

Linking events to a location

My basic idea (from reading the various web posts - thanks) is that
rather than using has_and_belongs_to_many I need to create another
model called venues which links a location to an event, however all of
the online examples seem to have a many-many relationship whereas I
want to create a linking model where a location can have many venues
(think the screens in a cinema) but an event can have only one venue.
How to I write this?

Contact details

I then want to store two additional sets of contact details for each
event, the primary contact (contact details public) and the event
owner (private for admin use). Again, do I need to create some form of
linking model (to store the type of contact) or can I just use habtm?

Event_lists

  • Have a default venue (which has a location)
  • Have events (each has a location)
  • Has an owner (has an address - a location)
  • Has a primary contact (has an address - a location)

Events

  • Have a venue (which has a location)
  • Have a primary contact (a person who has a location for this event)
  • Have an owner (a person who has a location)

Location

  • Has an address
  • Has a latitude and longitude

People

  • Have an address (which is a link to the location table)
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This is how I’d do it… yachtman

Table locations { has_many :venues, has_many :contacts }

  • id
  • name
  • address
  • latitude
  • longitude

Table contacts { belongs_to :location, has_many :contact_types }

  • id
  • name
  • contact_type_id
  • location_id

Table contact_types { belongs_to :contact }

  • id
  • type (owner or contact)

Table venues { belongs_to :location }

  • id
  • name
  • location_id

Table events { belongs_to :venue }

  • id
  • name
  • venue_id
  • primary_contact_id
  • owner_id

On Nov 20, 8:31 am, Cantankerous [email protected]