Thank you Marnen and Phoenix for your detailed explanations. I do understand the functionality of the foreign key. I just was not sure whether relying on rails's foreign key functionaliy is good enough and there is no need to do it directly on the database, but now reading Phoenix's explanation, I understand that as long as only my rails application is accessing the database, I can rely on rails's foreign key functionality. Of
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