Hi everyone,
When ordering from multiple suppliers at the same time, it would be
useful to be able to work on multiple orders at the same time. E.g.
viewing all articles an ordergroup is taking home, or a "Group PDF"
containing all relevant (e.g. closed-but-not-finished) orders.
One approach is to allow "1+2+3" style ids, like
https://app.foodcoop.test/fctest/orders/1+2+3,
which would show all articles from orders 1, 2 and 3. This is the
approach I'm using in foodcoop-adam's
combined
group
pdf. A downside is that one can't load all relevant data in
the controller: while getting the order's articles used to be
@order.order_articles,
it becomes
OrderArticle.where(order_id: @order_ids) which
doesn't allow for preloading using
includes().
Another approach might be to have some kind of
Order-like
object containing multiple orders. I don't really know how that
would look like though.
Is there a best practice for working with multiple objects in Rails?
Any input is welcome on this!
- Willem
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