Why does the Rails Guides say has_many :through implements a many-to-many relationship?

Question

To me it appears a nested one-to-many relationship.

Answer 1

example: post has_many tags through taggings. (and tags have_many posts through taggings)

So, a post can be assigned to multiple tags:

@post << tag_one
@post << tag_two

And each tag can have many posts:

@tag.posts #=> [post_one, post_two]

The taggings table likely looks like

id, post_id, tag_id

There you go!

So, since both post and tag can have many of the other, many-many