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Agile Web Development with Rails 6: LineItem

Hi,
Newbie here trying to learn Ruby on rails with AWDR6. Got a question regarding the LineItem scaffolded as part of Iteration D2: Connecting Products to Carts. What additional value does it provide? Is it just a join table for the many to many relationship between products and carts? But then a has_many association was used instead of has_many: through or has_many_and_belongs to as per docs. I am struggling to understand this bit of the tutorial as I do not get the underlying logic so any help will be highly appreciated

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In theory if the join table doesn’t do more than just connect two tables, you are right, you probably would not need to create a model class for it. Iteration D2 doesn’t really foreshadow this, but in Iteration E1, we add a quantity to the line item, and this is a good example of why you’d make a model for the join table - to add metadata about the many-to-many relationship itself.

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Agile Web Development with Rails 6: LineItem

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Agile Web Development with Rails 6: LineItem