No I need to have it so that Child has one parent.
I managed to get a reference to the parent by using the ObjectSpace. But its
almost a hack then a nice way of doing it.
2009/6/7 Conrad Taylor <conra...@gmail.com>
>
> 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
> >
> > >
>
> >
>
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