Hello -
I am new to Rails (and Ruby), and would appreciate some guidance on
the best way to model this situation:
I am creating a game website, that will require users to register on
the site before they can play the game. I may have multiple instances
of the game running at any given time. A registered user must also
register for the game(s) they want to play. So far, I have the
following models & relationships:
Game
has_many :players (:users???)
has_one :prize
User
belongs_to :game ???
Prize
belongs_to :game
When a User registers for a Game, I want to create a record that will
store progress information for that User, for that Game (a User may be
registered for multiple games). The key to this record may be game_id
& user_id. Or, the key may be an auto-generated integer, but if so,
then I think I need to hold onto game_id & user_id as attributes.
I am trying to figure out the best “rails way” to model this using
Rails 2.1.
Do I need a Player model, or will that be maintained via the
relationships?
Player
belongs_to :game ???
has_one :user ???
Thanks for any help that can be offered.