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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics Migrations and Relationships Single Table Inheritance

David Gross
David Gross
19,443 Points
Posted by David Gross
David Gross
19,443 Points

ActiveRecord Basics - TimeEntry model relationship

I am a little bit confused on the TimeEntry model. Why is there only belongs_to :employee and not also belongs_to :customer ? In my customer and employee models they both have has_many :time_entries. 

 class Customer < Account
   has_many :time_entries
 end

class Employee < Account
  has_many :time_entries
end 

 class TimeEntry < AccountEntry
  belongs_to :employee 
 end

1 Answer

Kang-Kyu Lee
Kang-Kyu Lee
52,045 Points
Kang-Kyu Lee
Kang-Kyu Lee
52,045 Points

I think you're right about this. This is weird because time_entries table has customer_id column and also (as you mentioned) Customer model has has_many :time_entries in this video. There's still one-to-many relationship between account and account_entries, but it should have belongs_to :customer in TimeEntry class if we need to do something like @customer.time_entries.