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adamonduty / Arel Multi-join example.rb

Created April 20, 2011 02:16 — forked from goodmike/Arel Multi-join example.rb

	# The problem: In your Rails 3 project, you have a model Request that models a
	# user's request for content related to a specific problem or topic. The user
	# can tag her request with any number of words. These are modeled by a Tag class
	# backed by a tags DB table. Since you want unique records per tag, you have a
	# Tagging class backed by a taggings table. Taggings is a a many-to-many table
	# with some additional information. Also, other models in the application
	# besides requests can be tagged: The Tagging class defines a polymorphic
	# relationship "taggable" with those models.
	#
	# So pretty soon you want to look up all the requests that are tagged with