Model help for a newb

Rails
1

Hi. Please help guide me.

In my model ‘ads’…there’s a column for ‘user_id’…

In the user model, there’s is a column for ‘feedback_id’…

i’d like for my ads to display the user,
and the feedback score from the feedback model…

so should i include in my ‘ads’ model a column for ‘feedback_id’ too? or
is ‘user_id’ enough, and i’ll do a :through…

(i’m not even sure if it’s possible if :through can work like that. It’d
be cool if it did…)

2

Hi,

I am not sure that I follow everything you say but I think that if you
have the following:

class Feedback < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :user
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :feedback
has_many :ads
end

class Ads < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end

Then you should be able to do something like

ads.user.feedback

to get the user feedback off of an ads object.

Disclaimer: I am rather new to all of this myself, so I could be
wrong…

Eric

Eddie wrote:

Hi. Please help guide me.

In my model ‘ads’…there’s a column for ‘user_id’…

In the user model, there’s is a column for ‘feedback_id’…

i’d like for my ads to display the user,
and the feedback score from the feedback model…

so should i include in my ‘ads’ model a column for ‘feedback_id’ too? or
is ‘user_id’ enough, and i’ll do a :through…

(i’m not even sure if it’s possible if :through can work like that. It’d
be cool if it did…)