belongs_to means the foreign key is an attribute of this model.
has_one/has_many means it's an attribute of the associated model.
On Feb 10, 2010 8:47 AM, "robo" wrote:
That's handy! Does that work too if I say
class Post
has_one :user
end
I guess the real question is - what's the difference
robo wrote:
> That's handy! Does that work too if I say
>
> class Post
> has_one :user
> end
>
> I guess the real question is - what's the difference between has_one
> and belongs_to?
The location of the foreign key. Go read the Associations docs.
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That's handy! Does that work too if I say
class Post
has_one :user
end
I guess the real question is - what's the difference between has_one
and belongs_to?
On Feb 10, 4:44 am, Sharagoz -- wrote:
> class Post
> belongs_to :user
> end
>
> Then you can do post.user.name retrieve the name of t
class Post
belongs_to :user
end
Then you can do post.user.name retrieve the name of the author of the
post
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