Maulin pa wrote: > Here is the scenario, Articles have many Comments Users can write many > Comments for many Articles > > The comments table contains both > > user_id > article_id > > as foreign keys > > My models are set up like so > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :comments > has_many :articles, :through => :comments > > class Article < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :comments > has_many :users, :through => :comments > > class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :users > belongs_to :articles
Wait.. what? A user has many articles through comments? Why, in the name of Yehuda Katz's beard, would you want to do that? A user has many articles A user has many comments An article has many comments An article belongs to a user A comment belongs to an article A comment belongs to a user. Go from there, that's what makes sense. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
