similar to: polymorphic has_many :through Vs Inheritance

Hello, is it possible to setup a model/table schema like this: Groupable --> Membership <-- Group ^ ^ | | User UserGroup I tried the following but failed: Groupable (table with ''type'' column) has_many :memberships, :as => :groupable has_many :groups, :through => :memberships

I am using RoR ActiveRecord polymorphic inheritance and was wondering if it''s possible to access the base class'' association methods in the invocation of either to_xml or to_json without having to depict the base class data in the serialized string. Here are my classes: # base class class Asset < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :resource, :polymorphic => true

Josh Susser tells in his blog that the opposite direction of polymorphic will get into trouble together with has_many through. This is the url: http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/04/03/polymorphic-through I do that according to Josh Susser''s procedure: class Tagging < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :tag belongs_to :taggable, :polymorphic => true belongs_to

Hi. I have a couple of best practices questions regarding polymorphic associations, naming join tables and user permissions. Currently I have implemented the user authentication model from the rails recipes book. Basically it goes something like this: MODEL CLASSES: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :roles end class Role < ActiveRecord::Base

I have two models, Article and Post, that has many Comments. However, both Article and Post are inherited from a BaseContent class like so: class Article < BaseContent has_many :comments, :as => :commentable end class Post < BaseContent has_many :comments, :as => :commentable end and here''s my Comment model: class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to

I have a polymorphic thingy called fields and I need to on each and every model, so I''d like to do the has_many from the base class, like this... ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do has_many :fields, :as => :model, :dependent => true end It fails with this no method error (class_of_active_record_descendant) /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/

Hi, Let''s say I''ve the following Models and their relative associations: Seat ---- belongs_to :booking Booking ------- has_many :seats has_many :debits, :as => :chargeable Debits ------ belongs_to :chargeable, :polymorphic => true Why >> seat.booking.debits nil while >> Booking.find(seat.booking_id).debits [] ? Thanks. Cheers, Marco

Hi, Four tables: users, user_counties, uk_counties and us_counties. Each user has many counties, and each county has many users, so I decided to make user_counties a polymorph, so it can have counties from different countries (each country requires a completely different set of tables with a completely different set of properties, that''s why there''s one table for uk_counties and

Hi All, I have the following arrangement: class PickAndPackRequest < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :transactions, :as => :request has_many :postings, :through => :transactions end class Transaction < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :request, :polymorphic => true has_many :postings end class Posting < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :transaction end But when I ask for

Running into an interesting problem that at first glance appears to be a bug in the AR association code. However, it''s explicitly coded this way so I''m not so sure. I have some code like this: class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :addresses, :as => :addressable,

Didn''t have quite enough space to describe it there...basically i''m having a problem with the :uniq option in my tags. I''m using acts_as_taggable_on_steroid which adds these associations to my Resource class: Resource has_many :taggings, :as => :taggable, :dependent => :destroy, :include => :tag has_many :tags, :through => :taggings, :uniq => true

I am working on a small model mixin called attachment_kung to make attachment_fu polymorphic, so you no longer need a different table and Model class for every associated attachment (Productimage, Ad_doc, etc). All you really need is one model and table to handel all your attachments - in some cases, anyway. I have the code working, but have run into one small hitch that I can''t seem to

My app has an association that''s got me scratching my head. I have Users, and Images. A User has many Images. (Yes, another picture sharing app, but it''s for a small niche, and it doesn''t end in -r!) I would like to express a "Favorite" relationship between both Users to Users, and Users to Images. This seems like the opposite of the standard

I have the following model structure setup. class User < ActiveRecord::Base end class Parent < User has_many :relationships has_many :children, :class_name => "Student", :through => :relationships, :conditions => "related_as = ''parent''" end class Student < User has_many :relationships

I would like to associate a ‘product’ model with 3 models inherited from ‘image’: part, action and accessory. I have it working with Has_many :through relating products to images through attachments, I then have to determine the ‘type’ of the STI extension. This means i have to go product.images. While this is ok, i can see it getting tricky when i want to go products.images <<

Hi I have created a polymorphic association for comments since I need commenting functionality on several models. The issue is that when I create the comment in my Commets#create action, I really don''t know what type the parent is of. So, let''s say I have Foo, Bar and Comment. Comment have this: belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true And Foo and Bar both have:

Hi, lets say I have a a table, "Linkings" that I am using for polymorphic associations. One of the associations is to the "person" table, and there are several other associations. "Person" has 2 types, "slacker" and "suckup". It is modelled as such: class Linking < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person belongs_to :linkable, :polymorphic

Hi all. I''m having a problem naming a polymorphic relationship. Here''s my thinking... First, an analogy. You''re walking through the mall. Through a window you see a game you''re interested. I''m attempting to model the relationship between your interest and the game you''re interested in. I have an InterestList. It''s job is to maintain

Hello all, I''m having a strange issue with a model that belongs_to two other models. The one association is polymorphic and the other is normal. ================================ class Role < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user belongs_to :permission, :polymorphic => true end class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :roles has_many :programs, :through => :roles end

I''m looking for a way to make this work (I think the code is more explanatory at this point): ## THIS WORKS has_many :images, :as => :imageable, :dependent => :destroy, :order => ''position ASC'' # @product.images => # ## THIS DOESNT has_one :featured_image, :as => :imageable, :conditions => "position = 1" # @product.featured_image =>