I’ve always wondered which argument pass to validates method for model which hash belongs_to association: association name or field name (Rails names it as a foreign_key). Do you know? Have you ever been asked this question? I know the answer for this question and of course I will share my idea with you in this post. Association name of foreign key? Assume we have to models: Account and User. Acco
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