Hi, Awesome guys.. Thanx a lot.. :polymorphic does exactly what I wanted...
I'm a newbie in rails but I'm starting to love it.. -- Rahul On Aug 10, 7:02 pm, Matt Jones <al2o...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 9, 2:09 pm, Rahul <rahulratz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Consider this scenario, I have a table which stores the > > "likes" and it would stores the likes from all sorts of tables like > > blogs,comments, postings, reviews, etc. So the table has the following > > columns(id, like_id and type) where like_id is the id from any of the > > previous mentioned tables and type would be single char column to > > identify the foreign key table(B for blog, C for comments and so on). > > How am i supposed to create the relation between like table and the > > other tables? > > Check out the :polymorphic option to belongs_to - it does exactly what > you're describing, except for the (premature) "optimization" of > storing a single character for the type. > > --Matt Jones -- 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.
