I think you have some of the rough ideas correct. Regarding the speaker and sermon. You only need HABTM between speaker and sermon if a sermon has more than one speaker. Otherwise you can use the regular has_many. But you seem to have a grasp of this so you may realize this.
Also for topics you may want to use a Rails tagging gem instead of your own topic model. You can investigate this one which the most popular: https://github.com/mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on Also you have the fields incorrect for your HABTM. in a HABTM association the id table will be separate. This is an image which was very helpful for me: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/766146/ruby-on-rails-data-relationships.png Ankur On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 12:19:35 PM UTC-5, Brian Scramlin wrote: > > Greetings RoR Friends! I would SO APPRECIATE your help with a question. I > have read the Rails Guides, Stack Overflow, and tutorials but still seem to > fail at grasping some basic RoR Association Conventions. > > I will share with you the gist of the project layout and a picture of my > models and associations. Please let me know if this is correct. Especially > if the "has_and_belongs_to_many is reduntant. > > Overview: A web application where a church profile can be logged into by > multiple users. These users will upload sermons which can be viewed from > the church profile. The church profile categorizes the sermons based on > either the speaker, a series, or a topic. That's it! > > Here is a picture of my models. Is this the correct way? > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ShoGNdfI3nY/VNuPHt5I19I/AAAAAAAAAKw/Y3Y3gu2SZWY/s1600/SermonSpace%2BModels.jpg> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/6b73ccf7-9f6b-4cd2-881a-cb18a739f7c6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
