Awesome!! Thanks that helps a lot. One follow-up question, if I may: >From what I've read, it seems that "references" are only to be used for "belongs_to" associations? Is it best practice to simply avoid using "references" and just manually use (for example):
(Using script/generate) customer_id:integer (Or manually doing a migration file) t.customer_id :integer ??? I guess my question is: what is recommended best practice for using "references"? Thanks again for your help thortos! -Steve On Jan 27, 4:46 am, thortos <thor...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > My first thought was "Nice!! So they demo string and text. What are > > the differences between these two, and what other types are > > available?" > > The types Active Record supports > are :primary_key, :string, :text, :integer, :float, :decimal, :datetime, > :timestamp, :time, :date, :binary, :boolean. > > (Source:http://guides.rails.info/migrations.html) > > Also, on api.rubyonrails.org I found the following information pretty > quickly: > > http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/Ta... > > Generally speaking, you usually find all you need in the Rails guides > and the API documentation. Now I wish there was some usable way of > finding answers to questions where you *don't* know which part of > Rails is doing the magic. I'd love to have some documentation based on > the *topic*, like this here:http://www.php.net/manual/en/funcref.php > > Newbies (like myself!) also tend to be confused at times when trying > to find out whether our question is a Ruby or a Rails question. > Thankfully the Rails community is pretty friendly. :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
