Ruby on Rails Tutorial - Many to Many Relationships

November 11, 2020

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Setup

This tutorial requires that you’ve already installed

ruby
rails

Create a new rails project

rails new invest_project --api

cd into the invest_project folder

Creating Our Models

Three Models

Investor - Investors who invest in companies Company - Companies who have investors Investments - junction of investors and companies

run the following commands…

rails generate scaffold investor name:string

rails generate scaffold company name:string

rails generate scaffold investment investor:references company:references

setup your database

rails db:create

rails db:migrate

Outline your relationships

app/models/investor.rb

class Investor < ApplicationRecord
    has_many :investments
    has_many :companies, through: :investments
end

app/models/company.rb

class Company < ApplicationRecord
    has_many :investments
    has_many :investors, through: :investments
end

app/models/investment.rb

class Investment < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :investor
  belongs_to :company
end

Test it out!

rails console

run the following commands

#1 Create a new Investor
bob = Investor.create(name:"Bob")

#2 Invest in a new company
bob.companies.create("abc")

#3 Create a new company
def = Company.create("def")

#4 Add an investor
def.investors.create("Steve")

#5 see the results
Investor.all
Company.all
Invesment.all