Re: model having association with its own

2008-01-31 Thread gnarf
thank you. it helped ! first i was surprised, that i dind't try this way before, and maybe i did. but with your answer i knew that the problem was somewhere else. and it was in the recursive setting. i need recursive set to 2 and it was set somewhere to 1. that was the problem. quite obvious, when

Re: model having association with its own

2008-01-31 Thread MonkeyGirl
> i would like to do the following. i have a table, lets call it > "softwaretype". in this table i want to store main classes (e.g. > Internet software), but also subclasses (e.g. Internet Browsers, Mail, > FTP...). i add an "parent_id" field which stores the id of the > "parent". if the type is a

model having association with its own

2008-01-30 Thread gnarf
i would like to do the following. i have a table, lets call it "softwaretype". in this table i want to store main classes (e.g. Internet software), but also subclasses (e.g. Internet Browsers, Mail, FTP...). i add an "parent_id" field which stores the id of the "parent". if the type is a main clas