Hi, when I saw your models, I was thinking that you should have the following relationships:
Parent has many children Child has many parents Thus, you should have the following database tables: children and parents. By doing this, this becomes a many to many relationship. Good luck, -Conrad Sent from my iPhone On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:35 AM, developerinlondon <ebilliona...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having difficulties accessing parent properties/attributes from > the child. Anyone could shed some lights onto this? > > Heres a sample code: > > class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base > :has_many => :childs > @connector > def before_save > @connector = 'some connector object' > 0..9.do |count| > self.childs << Child.new > self.childs[count].connector = @connector > end > end > end > > class Child < ActiveRecord::Base > :belongs_to => :parent > @connector > def before_save > # code goes here to access @connector > end > end > > The above is just a recreation of what I am looking to do. So > basically I want to be able to access objects like the connector from > the child, or even the parent itself by something like > self.parent.attributes. > > Any ideas? > > thanks, > > nayeem > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
