How do I define this custom tag relationship properly?

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EDIT: I've dropped and recreated the database, as suggested in a different answer, with no change. Also, I can't use a gem like acts_as_taggable, because I'm using my tags differently than normal.

First question on stack overflow! I'm having a bit of trouble getting a very simple association to work properly, and I'm not sure why. I've spent quite a bit of time looking at SO and docs, and it seems to me that what I have should be working. I am adding a "tag" model that belongs_to users and orders, and I've also added has_many :tags to the user and order models. Here is the schema of the model I've created:

create_table "tags", force: true do |t|
    t.string   "name"
    t.string   "color"
    t.integer  "order_id"
    t.integer  "user_id"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
end

add_index "tags", ["order_id"], name: "index_tags_on_order_id", using: :btree
add_index "tags", ["user_id"], name: "index_tags_on_user_id", using: :btree

In the rails console, I can create a tag, with a user association:

this_tag = Tag.new(name:"Urgent", color: "red", user_id: 1)

and I can get my tags user with

this_tag.user

but I can't get my users tags with

a_user = User.first
a_user.tags

which gives me:

User Load (0.9ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
 => #<User id: 1, email: "redacted", encrypted_password: "$2a$10$kdEgXW61I3b3Bu9Rbs3W0ex1jxTmIFWVe1jabDY9q9.U...", reset_password_token: nil, reset_password_sent_at: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 5, current_sign_in_at: "2013-10-29 22:12:57", last_sign_in_at: "2013-10-29 21:59:13", current_sign_in_ip: "127.0.0.1", last_sign_in_ip: "127.0.0.1", created_at: "2013-10-23 23:49:00", updated_at: "2013-10-29 22:12:57", name: "Jordan"> 
2.0.0-p247 :006 > me.tags
PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR:  relation "user_tags" does not exist
LINE 5:                WHERE a.attrelid = '"user_tags"'::regclass
                                          ^
:               SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod),
                     pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid), a.attnotnull, a.atttypid, a.atttypmod
                FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d
                  ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum
               WHERE a.attrelid = '"user_tags"'::regclass
                 AND a.attnum > 0 AND NOT a.attisdropped
               ORDER BY a.attnum

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR:  relation "user_tags" does not exist
LINE 5:                WHERE a.attrelid = '"user_tags"'::regclass
                                          ^
:               SELECT a.attname, format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod),
                     pg_get_expr(d.adbin, d.adrelid), a.attnotnull, a.atttypid, a.atttypmod
                FROM pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_attrdef d
                  ON a.attrelid = d.adrelid AND a.attnum = d.adnum
               WHERE a.attrelid = '"user_tags"'::regclass
                 AND a.attnum > 0 AND NOT a.attisdropped
               ORDER BY a.attnum

which is seems like an odd error, and none of the SO posts that refer to it seem to be having a problem that is like mine. I can get my users orders with

a_user.orders

and my order model's schema is very similar, the only difference being that I don't have an index added to my order model...

Is the index messing up my order? What is causing that nasty error?

ADDITIONAL INFO:

I've been having trouble defining this model how I want it, so I have created about three migrations, and then rolled them back, and used git reset --hard HEAD to roll everything else back and start again each time.

As requested, my user model is:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :orders
    has_many :tags
  rolify

  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
end

and my tag model is

class Tag < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :order
end

Answer 1

I found the cause of the problem, and it was definitely my fault. A previous version of the tag model migration had left an extra tag.rb model inside a folder called users. I guess I just didn't notice the folder, or thought that it was related to the User model. I also would have thought that running git reset --hard HEAD on it would have reverted any changes that I made, but this slipped through somehow - perhaps it wasn't added to my index? In any case, it was an extra tag.rb model that was causing the issue.