Ruby on Rails

The problem is that once you dive in, all of the "cool" rails scoping (user.books.create...) fails and you start managing the relationships yourself (user.books << book.find_or_create). It feels "wrong", but as I'm diving in deeper it seems like the best solution is to create an intermediate class to handle the association management and keep the logic out of the controllers.

On Monday, December 31, 2012 9:26:09 PM UTC-8, Dave Aronson wrote:

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:59 PM,  <sfnat...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a user, I can add my favorite book to my book list.
> Another user adds the same book to their book list.
>
> There should only be one instance of the book in the database but 2
> user/book associations.

When someone wants to add their favorite, check the database to see if
it exists.  What's the problem?

-Dave

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