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...tom add method to the association. i have a table locations that has a many-to-many association with a tags tabel using a locations_tags table. i want to add a method to the Location has_and_belongs_to_many association so that i can do something like this on the location model: myLocation.tags.add_by_names ''tag1 tag2 tag3'' On the extension i want to do something like this: class Location < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :tags do def add_by_names tag_names tag_names.split(" ").each do |tag_name| tag = Tag.find_by_name(tag_name) || Tag.cr...