Comments on: Database Constraints, Stereotypes, Rails, Culture, Talmud, Gender, MINASWAN, Religion. But ABSOLUTELY NO BONDAGE PLAY http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/ Reqs. Code. Docs. Done. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:57:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: 7fff - think max value » Blog Archive » ActiveRecord: Migrating habtm to model table suitable for has_many :through http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1030 7fff - think max value » Blog Archive » ActiveRecord: Migrating habtm to model table suitable for has_many :through Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:49:15 +0000 http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1030 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Database Constraints, Stereotypes Rails, Culture, Talmud, Gender, MINASWAN, Religion. But ABSOLUTELY... November 2nd, 2007 at 8:19 pm [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[…] Database Constraints, Stereotypes Rails, Culture, Talmud, Gender, MINASWAN, Religion. But ABSOLUTELY… November 2nd, 2007 at 8:19 pm […]

]]> By: amy http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1028 amy Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:32:44 +0000 http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1028 Mark, you are so right! It works just fine. Apparently John read on the rails wiki that you couldn't do it, and he took their word for it. And the rails wiki just happened to be wrong, or perhaps was reporting an old bug that was no longer a problem, or whatever. Thanks for insisting it could be done. Next time I'll just try the darn thing before posting... ;) Mark, you are so right! It works just fine. Apparently John read on the rails wiki that you couldn’t do it, and he took their word for it. And the rails wiki just happened to be wrong, or perhaps was reporting an old bug that was no longer a problem, or whatever. Thanks for insisting it could be done. Next time I’ll just try the darn thing before posting… ;)

]]> By: Mark Van Holstyn http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1026 Mark Van Holstyn Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:01:28 +0000 http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1026 I have done that many times in the past, and it works great for me. What do John and other say is the problem with that? I have done that many times in the past, and it works great for me. What do John and other say is the problem with that?

]]> By: amy http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1025 amy Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:50:03 +0000 http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1025 I haven't tried it myself, but John and others say it doesn't work, and I have no reason to doubt them. have you had success with it? I haven’t tried it myself, but John and others say it doesn’t work, and I have no reason to doubt them. have you had success with it?

]]> By: Mark Van Holstyn http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1024 Mark Van Holstyn Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:07:04 +0000 http://www.thirdbit.net/articles/2007/11/02/database-constraints-stereotypes-rails-culture-talmud-gender-minaswan-religion-but-absolutely-no-bondage-play/#comment-1024 re: Unfortunately, as he describes, ActiveRecord won’t let you add a primary key column to an already-existing table, so he had to migrate all the data over to a new table. What about add_column(:some_join_table, :id, :primary_key)? re: Unfortunately, as he describes, ActiveRecord won’t let you add a primary key column to an already-existing table, so he had to migrate all the data over to a new table.

What about add_column(:some_join_table, :id, :primary_key)?

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