Many to Many table name order?

Rails
1

I am totally new in Ruby and Ruby On Rail.

I have tables: iptvtests, configfields and resultfields.

both pairs are many to many relationship

  1. iptvtests and configfields
  2. iptvtests and resultfields

I created configfields_iptvtests and resultfields_iptvtests tables.

Also I put has_and_belongs_to_many in all three models.

When I tried to access configfields from iptvtest, I am fine.
However When I tried to access resultfields from iptvtest, I get an
error, which complain: “Mysql::Error: #42S02Table
‘iptv_development.iptvtests_resultfields’ doesn’t exist: SHOW FIELDS
FROM iptvtests_resultfields”

Questions:

  1. Do order matter?
  2. Do I need to create model for the tables
    configfields_iptvtests
    resultfields_iptvtests
  3. How to solve my problem?

BTW, I did not use rake and migrate, but do I have to?
I am confused on how to use MySQL types in those migrate create classes.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!

2

I think I guessed my answer.

RoR thinks in alphabetical order, that is it.

I changed them to
configfields_iptvtests
iptvtests_resultfields
Everything is fine now.

Put them here just in case someone else has the same problem.

Thanks!
Roseanne Z.

3

That is it. The join table naming convention is alpabetic.