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Asked: 2026-06-06T16:00:51+00:00

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around model association in ruby on

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I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around model association in ruby on rails.

Let’s say I have a Game model and a GameStatus model. I want each Game to have one GameStatus and a GameStatus can have many Games. How would I go about connecting those two. I have a game_status_id in my Game table migration, and I currently have a belongs_to :game in my GameStatus model. How do I get the Game model to eagerly load its GameStatus? And on the other hand, can I use the GameStatus model to get all the Games with that status, preferably filtered by some other Game property?

I’m using Ruby On Rails 3

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  1. Editorial Team

    If a GameStatus has_many :games, then a Game belongs_to :game_status. You need to define both sides of the relationship.

    Although, I’m racking my brain trying to figure out a meaning to an architecture as you describe… Are you sure it’s not vice versa? That one Game can have many Statuses, which belong to that Game in turn?

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