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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T13:30:31+00:00 2026-05-23T13:30:31+00:00

How to create an unique association (many to many) with Rails ? Ive :

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How to create an unique association (many to many) with Rails ?

Ive :
article +—–+ article_user +——+ user

I want that the user can mark only one time an article, not twice or more.

How can I do that ? I Tried with uniqueness it doesn’t work.

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    2026-05-23T13:30:31+00:00Added an answer on May 23, 2026 at 1:30 pm

    Sounds like you’re looking for a composite primary key – so that a combination of article and user is always unique in your joining table.

    Last time I check this isn’t natively possible in ActiveRecord – you might want to try something like this:

    http://compositekeys.rubyforge.org/

    Stu

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