# HABTM example required

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/habtm-example-required/5312>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [December 1, 2006, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/habtm-example-required/5312 "2006-12-01T09:04:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![glenn1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@glenn1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/glenn1)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/habtm-example-required/5312/1 "2006-12-01T09:04:05Z")

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You could do:

@customer = Customer.find\_by\_name("Joe Blogs") @product = Product.find(1) @customer.products \<\< @product@customer.save