One-to-many

Use has_many in the base and belongs_to in the associated model:

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :products
end
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :category
end

See Figure 2.

One-to-many associations
Figure 2. One-to-many associations

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