[Rails] Re: RoR data models ( extreme newbie question)

[Martyn Bedford]

Phil Peterman wrote:
> Hi Martyn,
> 
> The new way of creating db tables is to use migrations, but before we 
> walk down that road, let me tell ya about the old way, which still works 
> just fine.
> 
> Tables are always the plural name of the models they represent, so if 
> you are going to have a user model then you have to have a users table 
> and if you are going to have a product model you would name your db 
> table products.
> 
> In order to make your life easier, and being the lazy programmer I am, I 
> love easier, each table needs to have a primary key called id which is 
> auto increment, an amazing ammount of rails automagic depends on this 
> tiny step.
> 
> You can cruise on over to: 
> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jday/wiki/index.php?DevelopmentEnvironment
> 
> and that should fill you in.  Hope this helps.
> 
> Phil

Thanks everyone for your answers, as with any answer it invenitably 
leads to another question.

So if I have my object I create a table called object(s) and create a 
primary key called id, so good so far, now what I need to do is create 
joins and foriegn keys to other tables, I have seen this working in a 
few examples but I am lost as to the naming conventions for this.

Martyn

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