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Hi, Day 3 with rails here. Forgive me. If this has been covered many times before, pls just point me at the article. I worked through the Rolling with Rails tutorial (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html) built up my cookbook. Things work great. I now want to add Ingredients to my app. So, a Recipe will have 1 or more Ingredients and any single ingredient can be

I''m pretty new to developing web apps and need help with my database table design. I''m working on an inventory application to manage WLAN hardware. I''ve created a table to hold information on each device with the following (model refers to the manufacturer''s model number): create table devices ( id int not null auto_increment,

While the habtm model for rails is very easy to use, some tables don''t seem to fit easily into that structure. The problem is that the link is (I believe) always done on the id column. One common table in a lot of databases is a state codes table with one column for state code, another for state name, and possibly others for different things about the state. Other tables that have