> http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-has-and-bel...
This is an excellent reference. Much, much better than anything I found with Google searches! Thank you very much. Best wishes, Richard On Jul 12, 8:46 pm, Me <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a better place to start, ruby on rails guide. Basically all > you need is a foreign key pointing both directions in the join table. > > http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#the-has-and-bel... > > On Jul 12, 7:24 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > > [email protected] > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > > Posted viahttp://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 [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.
