One to one association
Welcome, First, consider when you might actually use a one-to-one association because there are two main use cases. The most common reason is for unique items that a person or a thing can have only one of. For example, an employee has_one : office or a student has_one : id_card . The ID card is unique. It belongs only to this one student and to no one else. And that student is only allowed to have one ID card. It's certainly possible to imagine a scenario where an employee might have two offices. But by using a has_one relationship, we're rejecting that possibility in our design. We've made it a statement of fact that each employee can have only one. At the point that we want to allow employees to have more than one, we would need to revise our relationships to match. The second reason to use a one-to-one relationship is to break up a sing...