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Asked: 2026-05-24T12:33:55+00:00

I have a rails app which currently has 3 models: Post , User and

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I have a rails app which currently has 3 models: Post, User and Movie. I’ve listed the important fields in the models below

Post: id: integer, user_id: integer, location_id: integer, description: string

Movie: id: integer, name: string, rating: decimal, ...

User: id: integer, email: string, encrypted_password: string ...

Now I want Users to be able to create Posts about a Movie, and my site will display these Posts. If there is a pre-existing Post about a Movie, then the rating that the User assigns to the Movie should be added and averaged with the pre-existing rating, and the description that the User assigns should be added to the list of descriptions already present in the Movie.

First question: How do I store a list of descriptions persistently as part of my Movie model? For example, is it possible to store an array of strings as part of the Movie model, or should I create a new Description model just for this purpose?

And after this, how do I associate these models so they behave as expected? My thoughts were:

Post -> belongs_to -> User, User -> has_many -> Posts, Post -> has_one -> Movie but I’m not sure this is the right way to associate them, and I do not have any experience with :through associations (which might be required here?)

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  1. Editorial Team

    The correct associations would be:

    User has_many Post
Movie has_many Post
Post belongs_to User
Post belongs_to Movie

    You’ll need to add a movie_id column to posts table. Descriptions should stay in the Post model, not in the Movie model. When you want to show the posts on a particular movie, @movie.posts should get you there.

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