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2009 Jan 18
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Modeling complex associations
...er one and only one of the buildings is the company''s headquarter. Thinking in terms of the database, I''d prefer to add an owning association, an thus have a has_many :buildings plus a has_one :headquarter, :class => "Building" assocation, where the foreign key "head_quarter_id" should be assigned to the company and refer to the buildings table. I''d prefer that to tagging one building with a headquarter-flag because there''s the advantage of only being forced to change one dataset (the company, more exactly its headquarter_id), instead of changing tw...