Q: refers_to / belongs_to vs. joins_many / many_to_many

Poking about in og/relation/* and experimenting as I try to unravel this
for http://robmela.com/cheatsheets/og_relations ( hopefully in a form
that can be used in the rdocs for og or relation )

BelongsTo inherits from RefersTo but with this annotation in “enchant”

target_class.ann!(:self)[:descendants] ||= []
target_class.ann!(:self, :descendants) << [owner_class, foreign_key]

Something similar shows up in JoinsMany with a comment:

  # Add join class to ann(:descendants) to be able to use cascade

deletes.

  owner_class.ann!(:self)[:descendants] ||= []
  owner_class.ann!(:self, :descendants) << [tmp_join_class, 

owner_key]

Is there a lack of symmetry here?

RefersTo <= BelongsTo, with descendants annotation on the latter
JoinsMany <= ManyToMany, with annotation on the former

On 10/16/07, Robert M. [email protected] wrote:

Poking about in og/relation/* and experimenting as I try to unravel this
for http://robmela.com/cheatsheets/og_relations ( hopefully in a form
that can be used in the rdocs for og or relation )

Thanks, for the cheat sheets!
Sorry I can’t shed an light on the issue below - I haven’t looked at
or given thought to that area of the code.

Mark