Rails - Aug 2008 - Re: Association > Correct way?

First - your models should be singularly named.  Use Country instead
of Countries, as your model is of a single country not a group of
countries.

class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :countrydescription
end

class CountryDescription < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :country
end


I''d be curious why you''re storing the description of the
country in a
separate table instead of along with the Country model?  Even if it''s
meta data I would think this is better kept with the Country model,
and just have a text field called "description" it''d keep
things
simpler.

Nicholas




On Aug 20, 4:39 am, Remco Swoany
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> newbie-question:
>
> 2 tables
> countries
> countrydescription (additional info > metadata etc. )
>
> Models
>
> class countries < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_one :countrydescription
> end
>
> class countrydescription < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_one :country
> end
>
> Is this the correct way?
> And how can i show the countrydescription.metatitle on the country page
> in the show.rhtml?
>
> Grtz...remco
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Also, You should consider fixing your naming to match the Ruby/Rails 
naming conventions.
> class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_one :countrydescription
> end
> 
> class CountryDescription < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :country
> end
This reply was almost right, but I think it should be:
has_one :country_description

Class names should be camel case with the first character upper case and 
the each word upper.

Example: SomeClassName

Attribute names and method names should be all lower case with 
underscores separating each word  (consider table column names to be 
attributes).

Example: some_attribute_name

ncancelliere wrote:
> First - your models should be singularly named.  Use Country instead
> of Countries, as your model is of a single country not a group of
> countries.
> 
> class Country < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_one :countrydescription
> end
> 
> class CountryDescription < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :country
> end
> 
> 
> I''d be curious why you''re storing the description of the
country in a
> separate table instead of along with the Country model?  Even if
it''s
> meta data I would think this is better kept with the Country model,
> and just have a text field called "description" it''d
keep things
> simpler.
> 
> Nicholas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 4:39�am, Remco Swoany
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7m5VldFQK4jKA@public.gmane.orgt>
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