Colin Law wrote in post #1068473: > On 12 July 2012 17:56, Jean-Sbastien D. <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >>> Can you explain the above again, I don't understand what you are >> CUSTOMER ORDER >> >> CUSTOMER ORDER >> first_name price >> last_name proceed_at >> password >> emails >> >> Now in models I would have to say >> >> Customer belongs to order >> Order has customer > > I think that should be customer has_many orders and order belongs_to > customer. The words make some reasonable sense in english. > >> >> Now my main questions I understand I dont define customer_id and >> order_id in customer and order table because its already assume to have >> an id key when created. But in ORDER model should I define >> customer_id:integer and in model say >> ORder customer_id: has customer. To let it know that this field is >> actually a foreign key? > > Since order belongs_to customer then the orders table (note the plural > name for the table) should have a customer_id column. You don't need > to tell rails that it is a foreign key, it will know that from the > model relationships. To specify it in the migration for orders you > can say (as is mentioned in the migrations guide). > > t.references :customer > or > t.integer :customer_id > > As I think I said previously if you work right through some tutorials > all this should become clear. > > Colin
Sorry here a question in term of modeling!! BTW thanks I am learning a lots with your comments But I just want to make sure I get the association concept understood well. I place a question few days ago on this links http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=153916#p153916 but don't seem to have quick Answer. I just wanna make sure I understand the concept of association compared to php -- 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-talk@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-US.
