User can optional be a kind of contact person for one or more towns Please explain this more detail.
On 29 окт, 21:48, ms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > maybe you can help me. I am looking for a reasonable way to model the > following concept. > > Assuming, we have 2 entities: > 1. User (table users) > 2. Town (table towns) > > A user can, for example, add a town to the database, so we have 1:n > relationship (one user can add several towns) and the corresponding > foreign key in the town database, that's allright. But now, let's > suppose, that a user can optional be a kind of contact person for one > or more towns. What's the right way to realize this? > > I thought about an attributed join table between users and towns. > Since habtm doen not support attributes to be changed (as far as i > know), we could realize it through has_many :through... > > But now, I ask myself if that's the best way to model the relationship > between users and towns and I really asked myself, how to name this > join table. Normally, it's common practice to name tables after nouns, > in this case maybe contact_persons. But I could it also name something > like "acts_as_contact_person_for" to get a bit more straight forward. > I really would like to have a good solution for this, because, I'll > have a lot of such relations. > > In conclusion: Do I generally have the right idea about that? How > would you model this? And what's about the naming in this case? Is > there a kind of pattern for this problem? > > I really thank you a lot! :) > > Best wishes, > ms --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
