stories re jobs and caregivers

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Here are some stories:


An employer logs in and creates a Job and fills in the various criteria.  This job belongs_to an employer, but does not belong_to a caregiver YET.

job
  name: Home Nursing A
  belongs_to employer A


Based on the criteria defined in the job, you can now create JobOpportunities for every caregiver that matches

job_opportunity_1
  caregiver: caregiver A
  job: home nursing A above
  employer: employer A above (this could be THROUGH the job and not direct actually)

job_opportunity_2
  caregiver: caregiver B
  job: home nursing A above
  employer: employer A above (this could be THROUGH the job and not direct actually)

job_opportunity_3
  caregiver: caregiver C
  job: home nursing A above
  employer: employer A above (this could be THROUGH the job and not direct actually)


  The caregivers each can log in and see their specific JobOpportunities and then accept / reject them.
    this could be boolean like 'accepted' or a status field with values like 'viewed' 'not_interested' 'interested'

job_opportunity_1
  caregiver: caregiver A
  job: home nursing A above
  employer: employer A above (this could be THROUGH the job and not direct actually)
  status: 'viewed'

job_opportunity_2
  caregiver: caregiver B
  job: home nursing A above
  employer: employer A above (this could be THROUGH the job and not direct actually)
  status: 'declined'

job_opportunity_3
  caregiver: caregiver C
  job: home nursing A above
  employer: employer A above (this could be THROUGH the job and not direct actually)
  status: 'interested'


The employer can now see any caregivers that are interested because they are associated with the job opportunities

job.job_opportunities.where(status: 'interested')


And when the employer "hires" one, that caregiver now is attached to the original job:

job
  name: Home Nursing A
  belongs_to employer A
  belongs_to caregiver C

so basically the first thing created is a Job, which is presented to caregivers as a JobOpportunity just for them. And when the employer agrees to hire, that caregiver is attached to the original Job which makes it sort of a contract, a real job.

I don't think you need an AssignedJob model or anything like that.

you can have a method in the Job class:

def assigned?
  caregiver
end