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I am creating the join table between my Product and Category Models.
What should the join table be named? categories_products or category_products or something else?
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Naming conventions in Active Record model Rails is capable of pluralizing (and singularizing) both regular and irregular words. Model class names must use the CamelCase form when composed of two or more words, while the database table names must use the snake_case form.
Discovering a descriptive, "real-world" name for junction tables will often increase the structure and readability of application code. In the example above, a descriptive table name might be "Authorship". A Book is then the result of multiple Authorships, and an Author is the creator of multiple Authorships.
categories_products. Both plural. In lexical order.
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Unless the name of the join table is explicitly specified by using the :join_table option, Active Record creates the name by using the lexical order of the class names. So a join between customer and order models will give the default join table name of “customers_orders” because “c” outranks “o” in lexical ordering.
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