yes sorry, a topic can belong to many users. For subtopics we had went the subtopics_users approach, but now that a new requirement came in to support a user having either a topic with no subtopic as well as a subtopic directly (impying topic).
Thanks On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Colin Law<clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 2009/6/27 AD <straightfl...@gmail.com>: >> >> yea sorry if you have a subtopic, you have a topic since a subtopic >> belongs to a topic. So if I have TopicA, TopicB, and TopicA has >> SubTopicD and SubTopicE, a user can have >> >> TopicB, SubtopicE. Since SubTopicE belongs to TopicA they would also >> have that. The requirement was really that they didnt have to choose >> a subtopic if they only wanted to choose a Topic. But choosing a >> subtopic intrinsically gets you a topic by association of that >> subtopic to its parent topic. >> >> AD > > You have not clarified whether a topic can belong to more one user. > If so then you need HABTM associations. Do you need further help? I > presume you have worked through the rails guide on associations. > > Colin > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
