I would put both start date and end date. That could simplify the calculations a little.
Milan Dobrota http://www.milandobrota.com On Feb 2, 10:12 am, adrianb <adrian.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Your question isn't really a Rails question, but a good way to do this > > would be to have a bookings model and an inventory model. > > > The rooms are 'inventory'. Their selling price is in the inventory > > model. Dynamic changes can take place to the inventory while retaining > > previously booked room rates. . > > > The pricing model is linked to the inventory by date, or season, etc. > > Rake tasks nightly could update the inventory based on objects in the > > pricing model. > > > When a booking occurs you create a booking to lock-in the rate, and > > eventually that booking turns into an invoice when the customer checks > > in. > > > You're going to have to allow for the employee to make changes to the > > booking rate (with manager approval, of course) in the event the > > customer comes in and changes their room after a pricing event has > > taken place. etc. > > > -john > > Thanks for the insight John. I think i glossed over my problem in my > post. My system isn't a hotel reservation system but a ticketing > system for a shipping line. I got the reservation part down (by > treating cots as inventory - which is exactly ChilliCoder's > suggestion), but the client would like advanced rate changes to be > setup to allow for bookings made in advance. > > The models i'm using are Voyage, Vessel, Route, Rate, > AccommodationType, Reservation, etc. Voyage belongs to Route, Route > belongs to Vessel, Vessel has many AccommodationTypes, Route has many > Rates, Rate belongs to AccommodationType. I decided to put an > effectivity date in the Rate model and do some checking to determine > which rate is effective based on the Voyage's departure date. So far > so good. -- 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-t...@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.
