How to set up two models having a has_many association with each other

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Published on 2011-01-05T05:42:42Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 5:53 UTC
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I'm looking for a suggestion on how to set up two models, Teacher and Subject. A Teacher can have many Subjects, and a Subject can have many Teachers. Another thing to consider in the relationship between the two models is that a Teacher can create a Subject and add other Teachers to the Subject.

I think I'm solid on the basics of the set up for each model:

for teacher.rb:

has_many :subjects

for subject.rb:

has_many :teachers

and the teachers table should have a subject_id column and the subject table should have a teacher_id column.

What I'm not sure about is how to set up the views (and corresponding controller methods) to allow the addition of a Teacher to a Subject.

Any suggestions (or links to examples) are greatly appreciated. I haven't been able to find anything on this exact case.

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