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1. steve 11.07.07 / 11pm

   I love the rathole … I mean Foxy Fixtures. But I’ll be darned if I can figure out how to make them work with has_many :through associations.

   Any tips?
2. John 11.08.07 / 10am

   Steve, do you have an example you can link? I generally think of has_many :through declarations as just sugar, so I’d be working with the target association in the fixtures.
3. steve 11.08.07 / 11am

   Here are the (abbreviated) class definitions. What I’m grappling with is whether I need to create a signups.yml. The semantics are that a person can signup for several categories and a category can have many people signed up. The two questions are: 1) Whether I need the signups.yml fixture; 2) How it is constructed. This is kind of a HABTM problem, but hm:t might work a bit better if I need to make notes about a particular signup.

   Thanks,

   Steve

   class Category :signups
   end

   class Signup < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :person
   belongs_to :category
   end

   class Person :signups
   end

   The fixtures might be:

   # Categories.yml
   pro_open:
   name: Pro Open
   price: 125
   description: $15000, Prize Purse
   more_info: This is the big event come and get it.
   You too can be a pro
   division: pro

   amateur_open:
   name: Amateur Open
   price: 40
   description: No prize purse
   more_info: This is an amateur event, you bozo.
   division: amateur

   amateur_teeny_wahinis:
   name: Teeny Wahinis
   price: 20
   description: 9 years old
   more_info: I can’t believe they can even stand up!
   division: amateur

   # people.yml
   sue:
   first_name: sue
   last_name: surfer
   email: sue@gooddomain.com
   street_address: 123 main street
   city: encinitas
   state_or_province: ca
   zip_or_postal_code: 92000
   phone: 222-333-4444
   school: sdsu
   date_of_birth: 02/18/1988
   category: amateur_open

   jill:
   first_name: jill
   last_name: shortboarder
   email: jill@gooddomain.com
   street_address: 123 first street
   city: la jolla
   state_or_province: ca
   zip_or_postal_code: 92029
   phone: 333-444-5555
   school: ucsd
   date_of_birth: 02/18/1990
   category: pro_open
4. John 11.08.07 / 11am

   Assuming a category has_many :people, :through => :signups, I’d definitely have a signups.yml. I’d stick with HABTM until I was certain that I really needed a join model, though. :)
5. steve 11.08.07 / 11am

   So you don’t buy the habtm is dead, long live hm:t?

   :)

   Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll do it! And thanks for the improvement to the fixtures.