*changes to one association will not be reflected in the other until reload.
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Stewart Mckinney <[email protected]> wrote: > Create two associations with conditions on the parent table with > conditions that point to each "type" of address. > > For instance: > > has_many :addresses > > has_one :primary_address, > ->() do > where( :type => :primary ) > end, > :class_name => Address > > This will make primary address accessible through addresses but also make > it its own association ( so you can just pass that association to the form > ). > > Be aware that changes to one association will not be reflected in the > other. So if you change "primary_address", before you reload, the object in > addresses which corresponds to your primary address will not have the > changes you made to primary address. After you save/reload, they will. > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Do these addresses have any difference besides being primary or >> secondary? Are there extra fields in one that are not in the other? Or is >> primary maybe a boolean on the address object? >> >> Walter >> >> On May 21, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Elizabeth McGurty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I have a parent table. And associated with that parent table is two >> possible addresses, a primary one and/or an alternative: (has_many and >> accepts_nested_attributes_for). >> > >> > Rather than creating a second addresses table, I have used a flag, >> address_type to distinguish primary from alternative, which will apparently >> only be useful if I can create a condition on fields_for >> > >> > But now as I explore and research more, seems that I cannot create a >> condition on fields_for addresses, type => 'alternative' or 'primary'. >> > >> > I want to utilize Rails associations... Should I just create tables: >> primary_addresses and alternative_addresses? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Liz >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/ae5620b7-a237-4ba2-ac52-1596fa3b7d8a%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/35D23682-9E4B-4B3D-A985-FB12B485C269%40wdstudio.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CA%2BCQ937oq%3DBOx80eSnnqTxaYwid7D%2BaNzA6_m%2BQUi2vFWSi-JA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

