Question

I am new to coding (never taken a CS class and have a very very minimalist understanding of the MVC architecture) and working on a test project to learn it 🙂 I want to setup some tables tables:

Table 1:

Table_1 ID | Name | Attribute_1 | Attribute_2 | Attribute_3 | etc

1      | Blah | attribute 1 | attribute 2 | attribute 3 |

Table 2:

Table_2 ID | Skill |

 1       | nun_chucks  |
 2       |     bow     |
 3       |     arrow   |

Table 3:

Table_3 ID | Primary_1 ID | Primary_2 ID |

 1     |     1        |      1       |
 2     |     1        |      2       |
 3     |     1        |      3       |

And then be able to visualize the data so it reads like:

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Name | nunchucks, bow, arrow | attribute 1 | attribute 2 | attribute 3 |

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I have used Scaffold to create the MVC for Table 1 & 2 and have the #page for each one respectively. I am not sure how to combine them to create table 3 and then make the data show as I am asking.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is a good reference for what you’re doing: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html