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Hi, I am creating an order management web application, and have run into an issue over join tables. I am reading Agile Web Development and it says that I can put additional fields within my join tables, and they give the example of a date field. I want to know if it is possible to do the following: I have an orders table with the order information as well as an orders_items table and an

loginGenrator for accounts and custom views ferret for search engine acts_as_attachment with imagick backroundRb for DB cleanup anything else one would use for a social networking site? and would the above plugins be ''good enough'' for a much smaller instance of myspace? looking to have around 1000 or so members. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have two ActiveRecord classes that point at each other with a "has_and_belongs_to_many" (habtm) relationship using a join table. The join table has an a few additional columns besides the _id columns. For those of you with the Agile Web Dev w/ Rails book, it''s exactly the same setup as the articles<->articles_users<->users example on p240. The habtm