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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics Callbacks Callbacks and Relationships

Posted by Alex Bannon
Alex Bannon
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Why even use a self referential model?

I guess I'm confused when thinking about the overarching schema here. Why would it be better to have Customers and Companies self-referring to an Accounts table? Wouldn't it have been easier to have a Customers table and a Companies table and a belongs_to_and_has_many relationship between them? I guess I'm just not totally sold on this idea and would love an "oh" moment on when to use self-referential models.