[Rails] Rails theory question, where to put a join query

[Horacio J. Peña]

> Say you have two tables with two models, 'authors' and 'posts'.

> an author has_many posts, a post has_one author.

A post belongs_to author would be the right way.

> You need methods to do the following queries:
> 
> find_author(postid)
> find_posts(authorid)
> 
> And you are doing a custom join query for both.  How do you decide what
> model they go into?  To me either can make sense, so I am uncomfortable with
> picking one.

Why do you do custom joins? Use associations.

Saludos!
					HoraPe
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Horacio J. Peña
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horape at uninet.edu