Fix example migrations in Associations guide

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/guides/source/association_basics.md b/guides/source/association_basics.md
index 52c30f226f..f895cadea5 100644
--- a/guides/source/association_basics.md
+++ b/guides/source/association_basics.md
@@ -572,40 +572,32 @@ class Book < ApplicationRecord
 end
 ```
 
-This declaration needs to be backed up by the proper foreign key declaration on the books table:
+This declaration needs to be backed up by a corresponding foreign key column in the books table. For a brand new table, the migration might look something like this:
 
 ```ruby
 class CreateBooks < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
   def change
     create_table :books do |t|
-      t.datetime :published_at
-      t.string   :book_number
-      t.integer  :author_id
+      t.datetime   :published_at
+      t.string     :book_number
+      t.references :author
     end
   end
 end
 ```
 
-If you create an association some time after you build the underlying model, you need to remember to create an `add_column` migration to provide the necessary foreign key.
-
-It's a good practice to add an index on the foreign key to improve queries
-performance and a foreign key constraint to ensure referential data integrity:
+Whereas for an existing table, it might look like this:
 
 ```ruby
-class CreateBooks < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
+class AddAuthorToBooks < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
   def change
-    create_table :books do |t|
-      t.datetime :published_at
-      t.string   :book_number
-      t.integer  :author_id
-    end
-
-    add_index :books, :author_id
-    add_foreign_key :books, :authors
+    add_reference :books, :author
   end
 end
 ```
 
+NOTE: If you wish to [enforce referential integrity at the database level](/active_record_migrations.html#foreign-keys), add the `foreign_key: true` option to the ‘reference’ column declarations above.
+
 #### Creating Join Tables for `has_and_belongs_to_many` Associations
 
 If you create a `has_and_belongs_to_many` association, you need to explicitly create the joining table. Unless the name of the join table is explicitly specified by using the `:join_table` option, Active Record creates the name by using the lexical book of the class names. So a join between author and book models will give the default join table name of "authors_books" because "a" outranks "b" in lexical ordering.