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You can use the built-in Rails console script to ask any model class for its associations:

Model.reflections.keys

—For example, let’s say we have a simple iTunes-like application in which a user can have one music library that contains many tracks:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :music_library
  .
  .
end

class MusicLibrary < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :tracks
  .
  .
end

class Track < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :music_library
  .
  .
end

Now, firing up the Rails console and listing the associations produces the following output:

./script/console
>> User.reflections.keys
=> [:music_library]
>> MusicLibrary.reflections.keys
=> [:user, :tracks]
>> Track.reflections.keys
=> [:music_library]