RichardOnRails wrote:
> I just added these linkage statements to my Expense and Vendor models,
> respectively.

Which?  You neglected to say. 
> 
> I found a "HOWTO: Beginning Relationships"
> webpage (http://www.railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=265).

Why are you following tutorials from 2006, before Rails 1.0 even 
existed?

And what have you been doing all this time?  You've been posting on this 
list for a long time; have you really never looked at associations 
before?

> 
> That leads me to think that I need to:
> 1. Create migration Add_Vendor_ID_to_Expense and then add column
> vendor_id of type integer, or something like that.
> 2. Create migration Add_Expense_ID_to_Vendor and then add column
> expense_id of type integer, or something like that.

You don't need both. 

> 3. Create migration Create_Expense_Vendor_Table and then add
> expense_id and vendor_id columns.

You may not need this at all. 

And it should all be in one migration class if it represents one 
conceptual change. 

> 
> Then I can rake db:migrate.

Right. 

> 
> Is that a sensible start?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Richard

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
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