[Rails] Re: difference between belongs_to and references keyword?

Kevin Hastie wrote: > Kevin Hastie wrote: > > I guess what I really want is something like this: > > class Address< ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true > end > > class Business< ActiveRecord::Base > has_one :address, :as

[Rails] Re: difference between belongs_to and references keyword?

Kevin Hastie wrote: I guess what I really want is something like this: class Address< ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true end class Business< ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address, :as => :addressable end class School < ActiveRecord::Base has_on

[Rails] Re: difference between belongs_to and references keyword?

Kevin Hastie wrote: > a) Am I doing this right? Apparently not. Weird. Is it because I didn't do polymorphic anywhere that Address now has a business_id, a credit_card_id and a user_id? Obviously this is no good - I'd prefer the Business table to have an address_id, etc So:

[Rails] difference between belongs_to and references keyword?

First, I am very new to ruby and rails. Searching for "references" is really tough, and so I've finally come here. I'm trying to create a scaffold. Let's say a Business and a School both can have a single Address (not shared). In a different case, an Offer has an OfferType (with just a type_id