Problem: has_many, (belongs_to, has_one) creating a many_to_many

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I'm very much a rookie with Rails so feel free to clue me in :slight_smile:

I have two tables: Series, Paintings

I'm trying to set this one_to_many up so that I have many paintings within a series i.e

Series: italy Paintings: pic1, pic2, pic3, etc...

When rails saves the painting and series, it repeats the series for each painting:

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2 things: it should be a belongs_to. Painting has a series_id column so it has to be Painting belongs_to :series. Secondly, the reason that a new instance of Series is created each time is because you're asking for one. If you want the painting to be appended to a given Series then you should be using Series.find ... to retrieve the appropriate Series, rather than creating a new one with Series.new

Fred