box design

[Ritvvij Parrikh]

Hello Guys,

I had a question. I had designed something in Java and was thinking if it can be replicated in ROR.
I could not think of a way, so asking.

Application Data Model - 1 / 2 Tables
Java Class called Box with 4 attributes:
1. Cardinality (minimum number allowed, maximum number allowed, default add number)
2. Name (Multiple versions of names) based on usage
3. Attributes - This class can hold 0 to infinite attributes without table change
4. Relations - allows attaching multiple empty_item_type by defining relations and grouping

Reference Model - 1 / 2 Tables
We then used this Box class to define / design complex hierarchical templates without database change.
Each template is stored in a reference table called templates.

Code
Then we write business logic code for each templates

User usage
1. Chose template and create new application object
2. Start using it

How to do it in ROR?
1. Instead of using automatic ROR based GUI-CODE-DB attribute mapping, write my own code to do it
2. But then whats the advantage of using ROR
3. Is there any simpler way of making this work?