Rails - Jul 2008 - Re: How to Observe a Habtm relationship?

+1... the hardest part is coming up with the name of the model, but from
there it''s much nicer. :)


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Thorsten Müller
<thorsten-1oxKqHKwyltBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
> that''s one of the reasons, why many people (like me)
> nearly never use habtm directly, but make the effort
> to create the intermediate model by hand and use
> the :through option for the final definition.
>
> Maybe there is another trick to get this work, but
> the model variant is the common problem solver
> in this case. the extra work isn''t that much and you
> get a lot of functionality for it. For example you can
> add status flags or other additional data to the model
> and have more freedom handling creating & deleting
> the relationship records.
> >
>
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Brian Hogan wrote:
> +1... the hardest part is coming up with the name of the model, but from 
> there it''s much nicer. :)
Been there done that. But are we admitting a gap in ActiveRecord''s
contract?

Confer the habtm directive already supports :after_add => :my_method. We 
discovered this gap by attempting to move :my_method into the common observer...

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   Phlip


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