i’ trying to re-create my project from php to rails. But now Im faced with a pb to witch I had solution with php, but I cant figure how to make it work with rails
but this only work for other category than real_estate
so I was thinking of polymorphism, but polymorphism mean I should add a reference in my “ad” table to the detail tables, and remove annonce_id from detail tables , what I thing is non-sense as some ads can have no details, but details are non-sense without an ad.
I was also thinking of a class AdDetails, and AdRealEstateDetail would inherite from it, but this is not possible with rails as all subclasses will share the same table
does anyone have a solution for this kind of problem ?
i' trying to re-create my project from php to rails. But now Im faced with
a pb to witch I had solution with php, but I cant figure how to make it
work with rails
here my tables
ads
id
category_id
title
text
ad_real_estate_details
id
ad_id
nb_room
floor
ad_car_details
id
ad_id
color
brand
here what I succeed to do
class Ad < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :category_id :title, :text, :ad_real_estate_details
has_one :ad_real_estate_details
accepts_nested_attributes_for :ad_real_estate_details, allow_destroy:
true
end
class AdRealEstateDetail < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :ad
validates :ad_id, presence: true
end
but this only work for other category than real_estate
so I was thinking of polymorphism, but polymorphism mean I should add a
reference in my "ad" table to the detail tables, and remove annonce_id from
detail tables , what I thing is non-sense as some ads can have no details,
but details are non-sense without an ad.
i think you have it right when you mentioned using polymorphic
associations. it is fine to leave the polymorphic association
nil if the ad has no details if that's what you're worried about.
i’ trying to re-create my project from php to rails. But now Im faced with a pb to witch I had solution with php, but I cant figure how to make it work with rails
thanks for answer. My pb with polymorphic is that I would have to create first in db a ligne for ad_real_estate_details and then create my ad, what is non sense for me, in terms of logic.
lets have another example which is almost the same
image we have Student (age, classe, …) and Teacher (subject_taught) classes that inherit from User classes. I would be non sense to create first a Teacher entity, and then to link it to User, no ?
lets have another example which is almost the same
image we have Student (age, classe, ...) and Teacher (subject_taught)
classes that inherit from User classes. I would be non sense to create
first a Teacher entity, and then to link it to User, no ?
Why are you thinking of creating the details first? Why not create the ad
first, then add the details later? Sometimes, accepts_nested_attributes_for
is not always the answer for creating association records. Try to look
into virtual attributes
and callbacks.
@ad = Ad.attributes(params[:ad])
maybe Im wrong, but as I understood about polymorphic in rails, this would thow an error say that ad_real_estate_details does not exist
I want to do
@ad = Ad.attributes(params[:ad])
maybe Im wrong, but as I understood about polymorphic in rails, this would
thow an error say that ad_real_estate_details does not exist
As I've said, don't use accepts_nested_attributes_for. Create a getter and
setter method for each kind of details that you want.
If you don't want to do that, create an attr_accessor for the details, and
create the detail record in a callback.
thanks for answer sorry I quite new in RoR. If I do how u said, will I have
to validate "manually" all the attributes for details ?
If you are new to rails there are probably many other basic features
that you are not aware of. I suggest you work right through a good
rails tutorial such as railstutorial.org, which is free to use online.
That will introduce you to the basics. Also look through the Rails
Guides, the one called Active Record Validations and Callbacks should
cover what you are looking for. Also look through the others.
