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Ruby Advanced Social Features in Ruby on Rails Uploading Files Attaching Files: Part 1

Posted by Adam Zuckerberg
Adam Zuckerberg
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Why do statuses belong to documents?

Shouldn't documents belong_to :statuses ?

How can a user's status belong to a file?

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I know it sounds weird, this would make me raise an eyebrow a few months month ago, but after watching one of GoRails videos I know that the only thing belongs_to does is it gives you a setter and getter for this attribute, so you can check and apply things more easily (in this case it's status.document and status.document=). Check out from minute 12:55: https://gorails.com/episodes/soft-delete-with-paranoia

At least that's how I understand the reason behind belongs_to in this case.