Re: [Rails] Need some advice on how to start a rails app

2012-01-18 Thread Colin Law
On 17 January 2012 13:24, Mohamad El-Husseini wrote: > @Jordan, thank you for the explanation. I'm having a hard time seeing what > the relationships model looks like:  id, user_id, blog_id, > relationship_type_id? In that, the relationship_type_id decides if the > relationship is a user or an edi

Re: [Rails] Need some advice on how to start a rails app

2012-01-18 Thread Mohamad El-Husseini
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Re: [Rails] Need some advice on how to start a rails app

2012-01-17 Thread Mohamad El-Husseini
@Jordan, thank you for the explanation. I'm having a hard time seeing what the relationships model looks like: id, user_id, blog_id, relationship_type_id? In that, the relationship_type_id decides if the relationship is a user or an editor? Blog belongs_to organization belongs_to editor throug

Re: [Rails] Need some advice on how to start a rails app

2012-01-17 Thread Jordan Miller
my rudimentary understanding... you need these all to be has_many :through relationships and you need only one person model and new relationship models to account for privileges. user has_many organizations, through memberships organization has_many users, through memberships membership belongs_

Re: [Rails] Need some advice on how to start a rails app

2012-01-16 Thread Aline de Oliveira Freitas
Mr. El-Husseini. I'm also new to Rails Dev, so my opinion is kind of imature, but for this instant, I really believe you should NOT be worring about those issues. If I were you, I would first focus on worring about getting my app to work properly, according to my specifications, strenghening my Obj

[Rails] Need some advice on how to start a rails app

2012-01-16 Thread Mohamad El-Husseini
Newbie learning Rails and about to undertake my first real app. Please bare with me, I'll try not to be long winded. It's a blogging app where blogs belong to organizations, not users. An organization can have many blogs, a blog can have many admins, and many subscribers. There can be many orga