Recently started working with rails; I'm very impressed so far, but I do have a question -
Say I'm running a blog-type application. I've got a Users table, and a Posts table. Each post on the blog is made by a user. The Post table has an FK user_id that keeps track of the author of the post. This is all well and good, but I've found myself doing this a lot: class Post def get_author_name user = User.find(user_id) user.name end end which definitely works for retrieving the author name when I'm rendering my view, but I'm worried I'm going to be weaving my classes too tightly, especially given how often this type of scenario can come up. Does anyone have a better approach? Thanks! -- 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.