Association in Ruby on Rails

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I have a question with Rails 3.1 associations. When you have a one-to-many association you put the has_many operators on the many side of the relationship and the usual example does something like this:

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :customer end class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :orders end

My question is how should I do this if the class name is Orders? Should I put has_many :orders or should I always name my models using singular nouns?

Andrew Marshall · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-30 03:51:57Z

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Rails convention states that model names should always be singular, so you should never have a model class named Orders; it would probably just be Order.

answered Nov 30, 2011 at 3:51

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ragar90 Over a year ago

and what if i had a model with WorkArea as name?? should i use :work_areas or :workareas

Andrew Marshall Over a year ago

:work_areas is the proper way to snake-case a camel-cased name.

Andrew Marshall Over a year ago

@RenéAlfredoGarcía If my answer answered your question, be sure to click the check mark to the left of it to accept it :)

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