It's a semi deprecated feature: getting attributes from the join table automatically. The trend has since been to make that join table a model in its own right.
Fred
Frederick Cheung wrote:
It's a semi deprecated feature: getting attributes from the join table automatically. The trend has since been to make that join table a model in its own right.
Fred
I know that I can use a has_many :through, but sometimes habtm is better in my application, since it doesn't clutter my project so much with models I don't use, except for the relationship. For relations that require more functionality, I use has_many :through.