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 <wa...@wdstudio.com> 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 <emcgur...@gmail.com> > 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 rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > 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 rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > 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 rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CA%2BCQ937%3Dx-gyE7OFHkhBj%2BPD7qnFO7uycRXTJwhDrYhVhXuM2A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
