FOR loop.... has many belongs to?

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Hey,

I followed Ryan Bates tutorials here about implemting checkboxes with has and belongs to many relationships.

In case you dont have time to watch it, heres a quick summary--

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<%= @product.categories.map(&:name).to_sentence %>

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Hmmm thanks for the reply.. but nothing is showing up. no error message though... is there a way to do this with a for loop?

I dont understand that peice of code.. im a rails noobie. could you breifly explain? Thanks

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This is saying that a product has many categories. The category name will map to an array then the .to_sentence outputs each item as 1,2,3. nicely.

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Thanks, but are you sure this works with has and belongs to many?

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If you have a product instance you can do @product.categories correct which returns an array of categories?