When working with more complex associations in a Ruby on Rails app you may find yourself in an object chaining problem upon rendering data to a view or helper. The delegate pattern is a handy built-in feature to Ruby on Rails to help with this issue. What is delegate exactly?

Taking a deeper look at the Ruby on Rails API documentation you can see delegate defined as a Ruby class method used to easily expose contained objects' public methods as your own.

That sounds more complicated than it is and luckily it's pretty simple to configure.

In the example, you'll find in this tutorial I used a User model and a Profile model to demonstrate this pattern. You'll need something similar to follow along but pretty much anything with a relationship intact should suffice.

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