Hello all,
i am stuck with something.
i have the following situation:
[code=]contacts---|
|--|0-1|--contact_businesses
| (either one of booth; business or contact)
|--|0-1|--contact_people[/code]
i have a contacts model that either extends to contact_business or
contact_person, depending if its a person or a business.
now i whant to describe relationships between people and businesses.
i thought about something like this:
[code=]contacts---|
|--|0-1|--contact_businesses
| (either one of booth; business or contact)
|--|0-1|--contact_people
|
|--|0-n|--contact_relations (contact_person_contact_id,
contact_business_contact_id)[/code]
so contact_relations would store the contact_id of the file that is
create/edited depending if it is a business or a person in
contact_business_contact_id or contact_person_contact_id and the
contact_id of the relation (wich must be the other kind) in the other
field.
this would be the way i would do it by hand, if i would have programmed
this in php. but in ror i dont really know or understand how this is t
be accomplished.
maybe self joins is the solution
(http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#self-joins). but
somehow i dont understand how this works and what table collums i would
need.
can somebody help me?
thanks a lot,
togo123
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