Manipulating has_many :through associations

Rails
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Hi,

I haven’t done any associations before, so please forgive my incorrect
use of terminology…

If I set up a has_many :through association, can I manipulate the
associated instances directly (like an Array), or do I need to
manipulate the join model?

For example, suppose I have two classes and the associated join model:

class foo
has_many :foo_bars
has_many :bars, :through => :foo_bars

class bar
has_many :foo_bars
has_many :foos, :through => :foo_bars

class foo_bars
belongs_to :foo
belongs_to :bar

If I have an instance of foo and an instance of bar, how do I add the
association between the two of them?

my_foo.bars << my_bar

or (inversely),

my_bar.foos << my_foo

or do I somehow need to manipulate the join model explicitly?

Thanks,
Brad

Bradley M.

2

I think my_foo.foo_bars.create(:bars => my_bar) would work. Am not sure
if
that is the best way to do it though.