Re: Creating a comments system for multiple types of

Rails
#1

It sounds like you want a polymorphic association -

class Party < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments, :as => :commentable
end

class BlogEntry < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments, :as => :commentable
end

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :commentable, :polymorphic => true
end

then include columns ‘commentable_id’ and
‘commentable_type’ in the comments table, and
ActiveRecord will do lookups based on both the foreign
key and type.

Cheers,
B Gates

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