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Polymorphic Associations reversed

It's pretty easy to do polymorphic associations in Rails: A Picture can belong to either a BlogPost or an Article. But what if you need the relationship the other way around? A Picture, a Text and a Video can belong to an Article, and that article can find all media by calling @article.media

This example shows how to create an ArticleElement join model that handles the polymorphic relationship. To add fields that are common to all polymorphic models, add fields to the join model.

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JennDudley / rails_github_heroku.md
Created April 25, 2012 20:56
Steps to set up a new Rails app, initialize a git repo, push to Github and deploy to Heroku

This is a list of steps to:

  • Setup a new Rails app
  • Initialize a local repository using git
  • Create a new remote repository using GitHub
  • Change README.rdoc
  • Deploy to a cloud service - Heroku

Assumptions:

  • Ruby is installed (v 1.9.3)
  • Rails is installed (v 3.2.3)