[Rails] "Owning" a polymorphic

[njmacinnes at gmail.com]

Maybe if you have an intermediate table, which links one-to-one to the
users (maybe called "commentor"), then each comment can link to that?
It's a little clunky, but less so than any alternative I can think so.
That's the problem with rails' strict naming conventions... if you
want to create more than one link between the same two tables, you're
a bit stuck. Hope this helps.
-Nathan

On 31/03/06, Eric Schultz <hammy at charter.net> wrote:
> I'm playing around with RoR and I'm having trouble figuring out how to
> describe a certain relationship. I'm building a social networking site
> where you have users who can comment on other users, photos, videos, and
> blogs. I've figured out how to have a comment belong to a user or media
> item through a polymorphic relationships but I dont' know how to have
> the comment also be "owned" by the user who made the comment. I've
> included some code to help with the description:
>
> #User class
> class User < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_many :photos
> has_many :blogs
> ...
> end
>
> #photo (also blog and video are similar)
> class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base
> belongs_to :user
> has_many :comments, :as => :commentable
> end
>
> #comment class
> class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
> belongs_to :commentable, :polymorphic => true
> end
>
> #comment table includes the following fields:
>
> id
> content <--- the actual comment text
> user_id <--- the user who made the comment
> commentable_id
> commentable_type
>
>
> I've thought this over for 2 days and I still can't seem to figure out a
> way to describe what I want to describe... Does anyone have any ideas or
> suggestions on how to do this?
>
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