[Rails] Re: Modelling Foreign Keys

Steve Koppelman hatlessnyc at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 1 00:18:41 GMT 2006


In this case, why won't it?

In your user model, you'd say

  has_many :posts

and in the post model you'd say

  belongs_to :user

and that's all you need for what you describe. What's not working?

Arch Stanton wrote:
> Can someone point me to a reference or tutorial that shows how to map 
> foreign key relationships in the model?
> 
> For example given:
> 
> Users
>  id
>  name
>  email
> 
> Posts
>  id
>  user_id
>  title
> 
> How do I associate user_id with users.id in the Post and User models? 
> has_many and belongs_to don't seem to do it.


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