ActiveRecord Associations Question

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Published on 2010-03-13T17:40:38Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 18:25 UTC
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I'm new to rails and have volunteered to help out the local High School Track team with a simple database that tracks the runners performances. For the moment, I have three models: Runners, Race_Data and Races. I have the following associations.

Runners have_many Race_Data
Races have_many Race_Data

I also want create the association Runners Have_Many Races Through Race_Data, but as my look at the diagram I have drawn, there is already a many to one relationship from Race_data to Races. Does the combination of Runners having many Race_Data and Race_Data having one Race imply a Many_to_Many relationship between Runners and Races?

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