I am using an existing database with a rails app.
I can't change the table or column names.
Lets say table one is "invoices" and table 2 is "orders"
they both have a primary key that is called the same thing, lets say "order_id"
invoices can find its order by looking at the primary key "order_id" in the orders table.
Vice versa for an order finding its invoice.
Invoices can have but not always have one order (you might be invoiced for something besides an order, like a "work_order" which would be found by looking for the "order_id" in the primary key position of the "work_orders" table. So invoices might have a work_order or an order.
orders always has an invoice work_orders always has an invoice
Im trying to figure out the classes in the models.
Do you set the primary and foreign keys to the same thing? What about belongs_to? The way this DB is set up, nothing really belongs to anything, they just reference each other by this same value "order_id". Would it be like this?
class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
set_primary_key(:order_id)
set_foreign_key(:order_id)
end
-- snip --
class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
set_primary_key(:order_id)
set_foreign_key(:order_id)
end
... And the same for a work order.
class WorkOrder < ActiveRecord::Base
set_primary_key(:order_id)
set_foreign_key(:order_id)
end
Is this correct? It seems to trashy of a way to do it but this DB is terrible.
What about all the belongs_to stuff?
Let me know if I have left anything out.
Thanks!