Complex Association - Please help

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Hi All,
I am a newbie in rails. I am creating a new rails
application. Here I have 4 models.

  1. User
  2. Item
  3. Application
  4. Tag

The concept is

  • Item belongs to User
  • Item has many Tags
  • Item has many application through tags
  • Tags are hierarchical (i.e a tree structure, a child tag can be
    related to a parent tag.)

Please help me, how to handle these Associations.

Thanks
Hirak

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Hirak [email protected] wrote:

Hi All,
I am a newbie in rails. I am creating a new rails
application. Here I have 4 models.

  1. User
  2. Item
  3. Application
  4. Tag

ok

The concept is

  • Item belongs to User
  • Item has many Tags

It means you have tags table will have item_id

  • Item has many applications through tags

for above you must have some relations between application and tags
table.

  • Tags are hierarchical (i.e a tree structure, a child tag can be

related to a parent tag.)

tag belongs_to parent_tag :class_name => “Tag”, :foreign_key =>
“parent_id”

You must have parent_id field in tags table.
If parent_tag is nil then you can identify tag as child_tag

Please help me, how to handle these Associations.

Thanks
Hirak

hope this will help !

-Sandip R~

–
Ruby on Rails Developer

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On Jun 5, 1:56 pm, Sandip R. [email protected] wrote:

  1. Application

tag belongs_to parent_tag :class_name => “Tag”, :foreign_key => “parent_id”

hope this will help !

-Sandip R~

–
Ruby on Rails Developerhttp://sandip.sosblog.comhttp://funonrails.wordpress.comwww.joshsoftware.com

Thanks Sandip you got it almost right, but what I meant is

Items table will have tag_id

How that association needs to be handled ?

Thanks again for your reply.

– Hirak