how to model a many to many relationship
- by Maulin
Here is the scenario,
Articles have many Comments
Users can write many Comments for many Articles
The comments table contains both
user_id
article_id
as foreign keys
My models are set up like so
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
has_many :articles, :through => :comments
class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :comments
has_many :users, :through => :comments
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :users
belongs_to :articles
My routes.rb has the following code
map.resources :articles, :has_many => :comments
map.resources :users, :has_many => :comments
which produces the following routes
new_article_comment
edit_article_comment
new_user_comment
edit_user_comment
etc...
This is not what I want (atleast not what I think I want), since comments must always be related to users and article, how can I get a route like so
new_user_article_comment
edit_user_article_comment
Then I could just do
new_user_article_comment_path([@user, @article])
to create a new comment
