# Newbie question

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/newbie-question/39359>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [February 14, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/newbie-question/39359 "2009-02-14T05:24:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Julian\_Leviston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@Julian\_Leviston](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Julian_Leviston)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/newbie-question/39359/1 "2009-02-14T05:24:33Z")

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Hey man. Welcome! First thing, from hereonin, please put more  
meaningful subject names. We get lots of noob questions. Second, what  
you'd like is belongs\_to association. Take a look in  
activerecord::base documentation at api.rubyonrails.org

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**Author:** ![CsabaBona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@CsabaBona](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/CsabaBona)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/newbie-question/39359/2 "2009-02-14T05:54:24Z")

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Create a unique index for the foreign key (user\_id) in the notebook table!