Re: [Rails] Re: "belongs_to" aliases

2012-09-15 Thread Panayotis Matsinopoulos
You may be right, but I have found a lot of other posts on Internet that they complain about "belongs_to". It does not bear the correct meaning for all cases. For example: class Product belongs_to :status end .Awful. No, the Product does not "belong" to a Status. It "has_a" status. Als

[Rails] Re: "belongs_to" aliases

2012-09-14 Thread Frederick Cheung
On Friday, September 14, 2012 8:24:53 AM UTC+1, Panayotis Matsinopoulos wrote: > > Hi, > > Since "belongs_to" does not actually reflect (as an English wording) the > real association that one object might have to another, I was thinking > about aliasing it using the following code: > > class A