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Ruby Ruby on Rails 5 Basics Handling Requests The Model

Eylon Cohen
Eylon Cohen
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Posted by Eylon Cohen
Eylon Cohen
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how does the method .all knows what db table it needs?

Hi, The method .all takes the data from a db called posts, but it was preformed on a class called "post". is it possible that .all checks the variable name rather then the class? what am I missing here? Thank you!

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Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

By default, Rails looks at the class name and converts it to a table name. You can actually override the name of the table it looks in, if you want. You can learn more in this blog post:

Ruby on Rails: Configuration over Convention