Rails 3: many to many polymorphic relationship

Rails
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Hello,

I’ve been googling for about two hours already but not successful yet so
I hope you guys can help me out.

I need some kind of n:m polymorphic relation like this:
building_types: living, shops
block_types: residential, commercial

activity_types: act1, act2

So now I need a connection table e.g. activity_scope so I can for
example allow
act1 only for living and residential and act2 for commercial and shops

Any ideas?

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Hi Heinz,

can you explain a bit more what is the goal? I’m not an expert, so maybe
I
misunderstood.

What is wrong with ‘has_many’ and ‘belongs_to’ models? If a record can
have
many types, which defined in other database, then it can be explicitly
defined in the model which it belongs to with these.
(I’m not sure if you thought about this.)

I think check Active Record, and how to use it, your answer will be
there
for sure! (Agile Web D. with Rails have 3 deep chapter about it
;))

Let me know how is your problem going,
all the bests,
gezope

2010/9/1 Heinz S. [email protected]

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Heinz S. wrote:

Hello,

I’ve been googling for about two hours already but not successful yet so
I hope you guys can help me out.

I need some kind of n:m polymorphic relation like this:
building_types: living, shops
block_types: residential, commercial

activity_types: act1, act2

So now I need a connection table e.g. activity_scope so I can for
example allow
act1 only for living and residential and act2 for commercial and shops

Any ideas?

This doesn’t sound like a polymorphic relationship (at least not in
terms of tables). Are living, shop, residential and commercial each
models, or just attribute values for a building model (living or shop)
and a block model (residential or commercial)?

It feels like this is more just a case of a complex validation where you
need to check the building type of a related building and the block_type
of a related block according to the activity type.