As someone who’s new to Rails with no prior experience, I’d like to share with you how I came to understand this tricky concept when developing Rails applications. I’ll go over some keywords that you might have seen and tried to use and give examples on how to effectively use Rails Associations.

Overview on Rails Associations

Associations are basically defining the relationship between models. When speaking of models, we should go under the hood and understand what the code you are writing does.

Models in Rails are SQL tables with your typical columns, primary key, and foreign key. …

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Now hear me out, sometimes we can all be deeply frustrated by HTML & CSS to the point where you’d rather give up. It’s an annoying feeling and as a React/React-Native developer who’s created projects like Taksiile, a replica of Uber but for Somalia and OGAAL, a Somali E-commerce app that I developed as a freelance project, I always wished that front-end languages can be as easily debugged as back-end.

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