Frederick, I would want to be able to see what students are being taught be what instructor. And yes I would want to be able to know what the course the student is taking. So from my current setup are you saying I wouldn't get that? Or would I get that if I used a :through association? I'm sort of having a tough time wrapping my head around the associations. I read the rails guide on associations but it's not sticking yet. Is the whole point of associations being able to make calls to the records because of active record's built in capabilities?
With regard to what you mentioned about CourseDate and CourseTime and just making them additional columns. Could I still call that information and post it to a calendar some how? My confusion over relationships starts making me think that I should make everything an object class. Has anyone else felt this way? Is there a guideline for when you make something it's own class as opposed to just making it a column in a table? Mark On Aug 6, 2:42 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 6, 9:07 am, MC <amev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > First crack at an app. I have a friend with a private school that I'm > > trying to create a scheduling system for. > > > So I have Coordinators creating school courses. Once the course is > > created the coordinator can assign multiple instructors, and then > > assign students to the course and instructor. So is this right? > > Are you even going to need to have students that belong to multiple > instructors? Are you going to want to know what course the student is > taking ? From the associations you've given you don't seem to be > storing that bit of information, the best you could work out is that > given their instructor there are only certain courses they could be > doing. > > > > > Then the other thing I want to do is set a date and time for each > > course. So would I create this also: > > > class CourseDate > > belongs_to :course > > end > > > class CourseTime > > belongs_to :coursedate > > end > > Without a full understanding of your problem (perhaps you are managing > repeating occurrences of courses etc.) this feels a little overkill to > be honest. would date/time columns on your courses table not suffice? > > Fred > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, Mark -- 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.
