>From my understanding, It is more likely one-to-many relationship because, as you already mentioned, one "equipment_type" is referenced by many "equipment".
In Rails perspective, they can be associated like this: equipment belongs_to equipment_type equipment_type has_many equipment Hope it would be help. On Jan 7, 4:12 pm, davidwright66 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am creating a stock control application. > I have a table called "equipment_type" that stores a general > description of a piece of equipment. This could be for instance: Canon > 60D DSLR camera. > I also have an table called "equipment" that stores all the equipment > we have with their serial numbers. There may be many Canon 60Ds and > they should refer to the "equipment_type" table for their description. > Is this a one-to-one association, because they have only one > description. > Or is this a one-to-many, because one "equipment_type" is related to > many "equipment" > > Thanks for your help -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
