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Kristiyan Tsvetanov
Kristiyan Tsvetanov

Reputation: 1047

Rails, product variants

I am building an e-commerce app the hard way(no spree, shoppe, etc) so that I can learn rails. Currently, I have a restaurant model, meals model, and orders model. Users(using devise) can open meals, fill in an order's form with an attribute :quantity and send the order to their carts(keeping :restaurant_id, meal_id, :qty). However, meals in restaurants normally have sizes and supplementals(with cheese, with ketchup, etc.). Ideally, I would build something like spree_flexi_variants but I just can't see how to do this... Should I nest "characteristics" and "supplementals"(becoming 2 levels deep as meals is currently nested in restaurant) in the meals, or somehow add an attribute to the meals model? Thank you guys for any suggestions!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 640

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 14048

I'm assuming that your meal object has the supplements as child items, in which case the order is also going to need child items, in this case they would be a join between supplements and order.

You don't HAVE to do it this way, it's just one possible approach. You could store the selected supplements as a serialised hash on the order row instead.

If this is a project aimed at learning, I would try both and see which feels nicest - it's all useful practice!

Upvotes: 2

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