Naming convention for bridge tables

Rails
1

I read somewhere that the correct naming of bridge tables is in alpha
order.
For example. I have two tables:
houses, and colors.

If I want to create a bridge table to associate colors with houses, I
would
name the table:

colors_houses

The associations work fine.

But, if I have a table named: track_houses.

Building a bridge table called: colors_track_houses, gives me model
associaton errors. How do I construct a bridge table where the table
names
contain multiple words?

2

Hello,

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:56:34AM -0700, Larry K. wrote:

Building a bridge table called: colors_track_houses, gives me model
associaton errors. How do I construct a bridge table where the table names
contain multiple words?

From the doc of has_and_belongs_to_many:

:join_table - specify the name of the join table if the default based on
lexical order isnâ??t what you wan

so for example

class Color < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :track_houses, :join_table =>
“colors_track_houses”
end

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3

That’s weird that you’re getting errors. You shouldn’t be. Are you
sure you changed all the model names (file names, class names and
habtm references) correctly?
-N

4

I beleive in this case, you need to do the following in the track_houses
model:

set_table_name(‘track_houses’)
has_and_belongs_to_many :colors,
:join_table =>
‘colors_track_houses’

In the colors model do:

has_and_belongs_to_many :track_houses,
:join_table =>
‘colors_track_houses’

5

Thanks for the help,
-Larry