Bee Dubya wrote: > Hello! > > New to ruby on rails, so I hope this isn't a stupid question (great way > to start a post ;)). Basically I'm trying to avoid making a bunch of > different columns in my db table by having my collection_select > concatenate the ID value it returns to a single text field (for > instance, the collection_select will return a footnote ID, and I would > like to keep it in a job column called footnote) with comma's in between > because each job has multiple footnotes.
DO NOT DO THAT. You need two tables with a has_many/belongs_to relationship. You should never ever put multiple values in one field. > > Is there any way I can accomplish this ? Ideally I would like to put > comma's in between so I can break it apart in another area of my > program. Don't. Read up on proper database normalization, and do it right. > > Thank you for any help. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
