Vestal Versions Related Records

Rails
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I need to keep version of a model Client:

has_many :product_clients
has_many :products, :through => :product_clients

The question is what is the best way of saving versions of the
association. Can I make the association using the client.version.id
rather than the client.id? Or should I use a bit mask?

Any thoughts much appreciated,

Mike

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mikej wrote:

I need to keep version of a model Client:

has_many :product_clients
has_many :products, :through => :product_clients

The question is what is the best way of saving versions of the
association. Can I make the association using the client.version.id
rather than the client.id? Or should I use a bit mask?

Any thoughts much appreciated,

Mike

What about adding a datetime start and a datetime end to the
product_clients model - expand it out to a full join table with
additional attributes? Don’t delete the relationship, just end it. Then
you could view which products a client had on any given date, today or
in the past.

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That would work. I like the idea of making my clients serial
monogamists.

However, it is a bit of a faff having to pass a date every time, or
perhaps I could write this into the has_many relationship. Am I
missing something?

I’ve just added a version_id (populated with the version number) to
the product_clients and added to the association:

has_many :product_clients :dependent => :destroy, :conditions =>
‘product_clients.version_id = #{self.send(“version”)}’
has_many :products, :through => :product_clients

Does this seem sensible?

Mike