Hi all,
I am creating a table that defines permissions to certain group or
person.
Classes
class Report_membership < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :member, :foreign_key => :member_id, :class_name =>
‘Person’
belongs_to :member, :foreign_key => :member_id, :class_name =>
‘Group’
end
Class Group < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :report_memberships, :foreign_key => :member_id
end
Class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :report_memberships, :foreign_key => :member_id
end
This Builds the reverse associations okay, and will display all the
groups. If i switch the belongs_to order in the report_membership
class then it will display all of the people that I have.
Before I save the record I was going to append to the value a 1 if it
was a group or a 0 if it was a person, so the first record of the
group would be 11 , and 21 the second and the 1st person would be 10
and the second would be 20.
The only way I can complete it this was is if there is a way I can
manually write the sql for options_for_association_conditions method
in the helper method, and I haven’t found a way to do that.
If there is a known way to do this, different from this, please
educate me
White W.
On 27 Nov 2007, at 20:30, White W. wrote:
belongs_to :member, :foreign_key => :member_id, :class_name =>
groups. If i switch the belongs_to order in the report_membership
class then it will display all of the people that I have.
Before I save the record I was going to append to the value a 1 if it
was a group or a 0 if it was a person, so the first record of the
group would be 11 , and 21 the second and the 1st person would be 10
and the second would be 20.
That’s a really bad idea. Either have separate person_id/group_id
columns, or use polymorphic associations (which is sort of what you’re
cobbling together)
Fred
HI Fred
Yes polymorphic associations would work but do to the work environment
I am in, I don’ t think it is a good Idea because it hard codes the
class strings. My superior Every so often decides that a class name
needs to be changed and he doesn’t like to modify data that is in
existence. When I get something working, It gets uploaded to the
server and he goes and reviews all the changes ( I know how bad that
is). My solution would be to have the type be a one or a zero but I
don’t know how to get that to work, as active record does most of the
work with polymorphic associations. The other thing that need to
worry about is that I am constrained to use Active Scaffold for ALL of
the views, with the exception of the login and the home page.
If you know a way to have the type be a integer that I can enumerate,
This will work, but if I can’t do that It could possibly create a
large amount of work in the future.
White W.
Ugh. Painful.
But, can you use before_save on the model with the value?