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aviral prakash
518 PointsWhat should i do to create a table in ruby on rails where a user can add his friends and other attributes
Basically my app is based on treebook app. With each status(a bill in my app) i want to tag friends. Not only tag them but also assign some amount of money paid by them. What should i do create such table associated with every status(bill).
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Dan S
1,966 PointsStill very new to rails myself, but I think you need to be looking at using belongs_to and has_many in your models. So if you had a model called Users and a model called Bills, then in the Users model, you would have has_many :bills and in the Bills model you would have belongs_to :users. This would create the association.
Another handy way of doing it is when creating the scaffold at the beginning you can do:
rails g scaffold model users name:string phone_number:integer bills:has_many rails g scaffold model bills friend:string amount:integer users:belongs_to
It may not be exactly correct, but this is how I've been doing associations it so far. This link helped me: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html
Hope it helps.