Database schema question

[Nelson Keating]

Im setting up a very basic rails app and have a question about the needed migrations & associations.

Basically, my app is an occasion reminder service that emails users when occasions that they select or input are coming up.

Occasions will be selected from a checkbox type list or alternatively manually input by the user (name and date of the occasion).

Users can have_many occassions. 

How would i set this up in my models? So far i have:

class Reminder < ActiveRecord::Base

  attr_accessible :date, :name

  belongs_to :user

end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  attr_accessible :address, :birthday, :city, :email, :gender, :interests, :name, :postal_code

  has_many :reminders

end

Thanks!

[Colin Law]

You seem confused about the words Reminder and Occasion. In the text
you say a user has many occasions but in the code you have called them
Reminders. I would have thought that the object in the database is an
occasion, then you generate reminders for that occasion as required.

Colin

[Nelson Keating]

Thanks for pointing that out.. so changing the "Reminders" table/model to "Occasions" ... how would i proceed from there?

[Colin Law]

On 4 May 2012 18:38, Nelson Keating <nelson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for pointing that out.. so changing the "Reminders" table/model to
> "Occasions" ... how would i proceed from there?

Have you worked through some tutorials to give you some insight into
the basics of Rails? railstutorial.org is good and is free to use
online. If you work right through that, doing the exercises and so on
then you should be better placed to get going.

Colin

>
>
> On Thursday, May 3, 2012 9:50:34 PM UTC-7, Nelson Keating wrote:
>>
>> Im setting up a very basic rails app and have a question about the needed
>> migrations & associations.
>>
>> Basically, my app is an occasion reminder service that emails users when
>> occasions that they select or input are coming up.
>>
>> Occasions will be selected from a checkbox type list or alternatively
>> manually input by the user (name and date of the occasion).
>>
>> Users can have_many occassions.
>>
>> How would i set this up in my models? So far i have:
>>
>> class Reminder < ActiveRecord::Base
>>   attr_accessible :date, :name
>>   belongs_to :user
>> end
>>
>> class User < ActiveRecord::Base
>>   attr_accessible :address, :birthday, :city, :email, :gender, :interests,
>> :name, :postal_code
>>   has_many :reminders
>> end
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>

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