On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > In one of my current projects, I have an habtm relationship between two > models. To access the table > via console, I created the model for the join table. so for example, I > have > > class Foo > has_and_belongs_to_many :bars, :join_table => 'foo_bars' > > I created a FooBar class so I can actually access the records via AR. My > question is this, is it fine to > add another column to this table? > If you are going to add another column to the FooBar table then you might as well change the associations of models Foo and Bar to has_many :foo_bar and then put belongs_to :foo belongs_to :bar in your model FooBar. The point of the has_and_belongs_to_many is to setup a join table for association that you don't plan on accessing through a model or need additional fields for. B. -- 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.
