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2006 Apr 21
2
me.defeated!
...from a legacy
database. The trick is, that the database really wasn''t created with
RoR convention over configuration in mind. The trick is that every
table has compound primary keys, and no foreign key references. So, for
instance:
Table parent
field id1 PK
field id2 PK
field other_fields
Table child
field id1 PK
field id2 PK
field other_fields
Are the table definitions (informally anyway). Now, the way that this
particular DB works is that to get the child for any parent, you just
find the same id1 and id2. So the compound primary key is sort of an
informal kind of for...