polywogsys

The beta release of CakePHP has a MAJOR BUG affecting the HABTM relationships. I tried the fix in that link, and there were still issues with table associations. I downloaded the nightly for 1.2.x.x_27.03.2008 and copied the "cake" directory over to my project, and everything seems to be working OK now.

Honestly, I think that a bug of that type should not be in a "beta" release. They should release an updated tarball. Someone like me, learning it for the first time, will take hours to figure out what is going on, and whether I am just "doing something wrong." In any case, the nightly tarball hasn't broken anything yet, so I would recommend it.