Question

Users can vote on posts, so I set a many to many relationship in rails:

users have many votes
posts have many votes

posts have many users through votes
users have many posts through votes

Is there a more elegant way to create a new vote than this:

user.votes.create(:post_id => post.id).save

? thanks

Answer 1

There is at least a “standard” way. I assume this is coming in from a form somewhere. So just pass in params like so:

 @vote = Vote.new(params[:vote])
 @vote.user = current_user
 if @vote.save
      ...
 else
      ...
 end