Ruby on Rails generates model field:type - what are the options for field:type?

Question

I\'m trying to generate a new model and forget the syntax for referencing another model\'s ID. I\'d look it up myself, but I haven\'t figured out, among all my Ruby on Rails

Answer 1

$ rails g model Item name:string description:text product:references

I too found the guides difficult to use. Easy to understand, but hard to find what I am looking for.

Also, I have temp projects that I run the rails generate commands on. Then once I get them working I run it on my real project.

Reference for the above code: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#associating-models

Answer 2

http://guides.rubyonrails.org should be a good site if you're trying to get through the basic stuff in Ruby on Rails.

Here is a link to associate models while you generate them: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#associating-models