[Rails] Re: Inserting multiple records from one table (model) to ano

You are correct.
I must do some editing to incoming data before it's "imported" into the
"projects" table.

I'm having more problems importing data from one table to another. When
editing is complete, I click a button to "save" to projects table.
My button is very up front and easy.
<%= button_to "Add Records to Projects", :action => "addIrbProjects",
:id => import.id %>

It's just setting up the projects Controller that has me confused.
I'm in the projects controller reading a "imports" table.

John

Ar Chron wrote:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>>
>> You could -- it's just poor design in most cases.
>>
>
> Most cases yes, but in some cases a parallel import table is not a bad
> thing.
>
> If you put all your data into one table, then all the records going into
> that table have to pass all the model constraints immediately.
>
> From John's initial post, I read "after doing some preliminary editing"
> to imply that the records, as imported from CSV, may not satisfy all the
> constraints of the application.
>
> It may be in his interest to keep these "dirty" records separate from
> the "clean" records so he does not have to relax any constraints on the
> mainstream application data, or complicate his existing model
> constraints by mixing a flag check into the middle of things.
>
> Ultimately, it'll be whatever works best for John.

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