As my first project with RoR, I’m creating a lyrics website. Thus, there are basically three main models that will have to be maintained through the site: artists, albums, and songs.

So, I’m current in the process of setting up associations between the model classes (Artist, Album, Song) so that I can easily access the associated information. I have no idea if what I’m doing currently is correct, but I’ll probably find out tomorrow when I continue working.

This is what I’ve put into each of the model files so far:

artist.rb
class Artist < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :songs, :order => "song_name", :dependent => true
   has_many :albums, :order => "album_name", :dependent => true
end

album.rb
class Album < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :artist
   has_many :songs, :order => "song_title", :dependent => true
end

song.rb
class Song < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :artist
   belongs_to :album
end

I have designed the database so that songs do not necessary have to belong to an album, in the case that the album name is not readily available. That's why there's a little bit of redundancy of information.

But, other than that, are any errors apparent to anyone?

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