Hi.
On the document the has_many :limit option :
The :limit option lets you restrict the total number of objects that
will be fetched through an association.
I’m a little confused about this explanation.
is fetched means it can save more but restircted numbers to retrieve
at once?
For example, we can have wife/husband up to 1 (unless arab…)
I suppose
class Me < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :wife
end
because i can have a wife or not. so it is not 1:1, isn’t it?
but at the same time i want to limit the number of wife to just 1.
how can i represent this relationship into active record?
On second thoughts I am not sure about this, writing
class Wife < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :husband
end
may well get you into serious trouble.
This is actually one of the more interesting examples. In the specific
case of husband and wife the design pattern that most people use is
something like the following:
Story:
Assuming the relationship is based on one spouse at a time a
many-to-many relationship is still used to track the history of
marriages between people. The one-spouse-at-a-time rule would then be
implemented in validation code.
Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :marriages
has_many :spouses, :through => :marriage
validate :one_spouse_at_a_time
def current_spouse
# find and return the person’s current spouse
end
protected
def one_spouse_at_a_time
# do the validation here
end
end