Question

I’m developing a poll feature that allows users to create poll questions with options and allow other users to answer them

The answer model includes an option_id column but the two models are not related.

I have two questions:

• Do my models (below) fully encapsulate what I’m trying to represent?
• How would the create method for an answer controller action look? (Specifically, how to retrieve the option_id)

Note: I’ve never dealt with this pattern in which a model(answer) references another model (option) via option_id but the two aren’t related

So far I have this:

class Question < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :options
  has_many :answers
end

class Option < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :question
end

class Answer < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :question
end

Answer 1

Found a tut for a mobile app doing this