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The Order Model

Understand how to create the Order model in Rails linked to users, run database migrations, and manage the model's relationships. Learn to use Rails commands to generate and set up the Order model for your API.

Generate the model

The Order model is associated with users and products simultaneously.

Thankfully, it is easy to achieve this in Rails. The tricky part is when it comes to serializing this object. We’ll talk more about this later.

We will generate the Order model using the generate model command:

$ rails generate model order user:belongs_to total:decimal

We use the references method to create ...