Implementing project management and event types

Rails
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I am implemented a simple project management application. Each
project has various events, and each event can be a different type.
Some event information is common, such as name, start date, close
date, and comments. I have a projects table which has_many events.
My plan is to have several sub-event tables, like event_get_access
which will contain an event_id field to link it to table events as
well as information specific to a “get access” event (remote access,
username, passwords, etc). Another event type might be “upgrade”
which stores information about the server to be upgraded, etc.

So I have:

  • a project which has_many events
  • events which belongs_to :project
  • sub-events which belong_to :event

How do the subevents relate to event? An event will never have more
than one subevent, but it may not have any of a particular subevent.

Thanks for your help on this?

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May be my

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may be my option wrong. if I do your project i will do this.

  • a project which has_many events
  • events which belongs_to :project
    event has_one sub_event

option II

  • a project which has_many events
  • events which belongs_to :project
    sub_event has column “sub_event_id”. it just refer the sub_event table

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Sampath M.
<[email protected]

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On 19 August 2010 18:52, richardsugg [email protected] wrote:

So I have:

  • a project which has_many events
  • events which belongs_to :project
  • sub-events which belong_to :event

How do the subevents relate to event? An event will never have more
than one subevent, but it may not have any of a particular subevent.

Have you looked at Single Table Inheritance, which would allow
multiple types of event all in one table (rather than have subevents
of different types)?

Otherwise I think you could have
Event
has_one :sub_event_type_one
has_one :sub_event_type_two
and so on.

Then
SubEventTypeOne
belongs_to :event
etc.

It does not matter if a particular event does not have a particular
type of subevent, if you try to access event.sub_event_type_one and it
does not have one then you will get nil

Colin

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Sorry for the delay – I forgot to subscribe to the thread and didn’t
realize I had responses until I checked manually.

I thought about STI, but it seems that I would have a very complex
table. I did not realize, however, that I could include a bunch of
has_one statements – I assumed that since an event would have a
particular subevent based on the event_type, that the has_one wouldn’t
work. Since it will (just have to check for nil and know which
event_type I’m working with), I think your second opinion would work.

Thanks!