favouriting users profiles in rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

so I've created a web app that has user profiles, where users can search for fellow users based on interests etc.. How might I add a feature where users can favorite a persons profile? I.e. User A finds User B and likes what they see, and can click a 'Favorite this profile' button and perhaps it's starred, and stored? What would the code look like for this? Just an idea, but I'm open to all ideas.
user_profile.html.erb
<%= render "shared/header" %>
<div id="landing_welcome_page">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<%#= Profile image upload %>
<div class="span4">
<%= user_avatar(current_user) %>
<%#= Space w line %>
<div class="name"></div><br>
<%#= Please bare in mind these are strickly temporary placeholders i.e whitespace %>
<%= render 'social' %>
</div>
<div class="span8">
<%# User name %>
<span class="name1">
<% if current_user.first_name.blank? %>
<%= current_user.first_name.present? ? current_user.first_name : link_to('Finish your profile', edit_account_path)%>
<% else %>
<%= current_user.first_name %> <%= current_user.last_name %>
<% end %>
</span>
<span class="side-buttons">
<div class="name"></div>
</span>
</span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<br />
<div class="span6">
<%# User occupation %>
<i class="fa fa-usd"></i>:
<%= best_in_place current_user, :occupation, nil: 'Add occupation' %>
</div>
<div class="addy">
<div class="span2">
<%# User address %>
<i class="fa fa-home"></i>:
<%= current_user.address.present? ? current_user.address : link_to('Add Address', edit_account_path) %>
</div>
</div>
<div class="span6">
<%# User gender %>
<br />
<% if current_user.gender == "M" || "male" %>
<i class="fa fa-male"></i> Male
<% else %>
<i class="fa fa-female"></i> Female
<% end %>
</div>
<div class="span2">
<!-- Code to calculate age by user birthday -->
<br />
Age: <%= user_birthday %>
</div>
<div class="span8"></div>
<div class="span8"><div class="name"></div></div>
<div class="span8">
<div class="tabbable"> <!-- Only required for left/right tabs -->
<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
<li class="active">About me</li>
<li>Photos</li>
<li>Personality</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content">
<div class="tab-pane in active" id="tab1">
<% #questions_for_about.each_with_index do |question, index| %>
<div class="question">
<h4 class="user_questions">
<%= index + 1 %>. <%= question.question %>
<%= link_to ("<i class='icon-edit'></i>".html_safe),
edit_user_question_path(current_user, question),
remote: true, class: "edit_link_#{question.id}" %>
</h4>
<div class="answer" id="answer_<%= question.id %>">
<%= answer_for(question) %>
</div>
</div>
<% end %>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane" id="tab2">
<div class="page-header">
<%= form_for Photo.new do |f| %>
<span class="btn btn-success fileinput-button">
<i class="icon-plus icon-white"></i>
<span>Add photos...</span>
<%= f.file_field :file, multiple: true, name: "photo[file]" %>
</span>
<% end %>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
<div class="photos_cont">
<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3">
<span class="gallery"><%= render current_user.photos %></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane" id="tab3">
<% #questions_for_personality.each_with_index do |question, index| %>
<div class="question">
<h4 class="user_questions">
<%= index + 1 %>. <%= question.question %>
<%= link_to ("<i class='icon-edit'></i>".html_safe),
edit_user_question_path(current_user, question),
remote: true, class: "edit_link_#{question.id}" %>
</h4>
<div class="answer" id="answer_<%= question.id %>">
<%= answer_for(question) %>
</div>
</div>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<%= render '/shared/footer' %>
</div>
</div>
<script id="template-upload" type="text/x-tmpl">
<div class="upload">
{%=o.name%}
<div class="progress"><div class="bar" style="width: 0%;"></div></div>
</div>
</script>
<script>
var fb_param = {};
fb_param.pixel_id = '6009056882201';
fb_param.value = '0.00';
(function(){
var fpw = document.createElement('script');
fpw.async = true;
fpw.src = '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/fp.js';
var ref = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
ref.parentNode.insertBefore(fpw, ref);
})();
</script>
<noscript>
<img height="1" src="https://www.facebook.com/offsite_event.php?id=6009056882201&value=0" style="display:none;" width="1"/>
</noscript>
<script type="text/javascript">
// remove default datepicker event
jQuery(document).off('best_in_place:datepicker');
jQuery(document).on('best_in_place:datepicker', function(event, bip, element) {
// Display the jQuery UI datepicker popup
jQuery(element).find('input')
.datepicker({
format: element.data('date-format')
})
.on('hide', function(){
bip.update();
})
.on('changeDate', function(){
$(this).datepicker('hide');
})
.datepicker('show');
});
</script>

Answer 1

Create a Favorite model with a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship with User
Once you create the Favorite model and set up the relationship, you can do things like:
#user.favorites = [ user1, user2, user3 ]
#user.favorites << user4
to assign favorites to a user, or display them with something like:
<%= #user.favorites.map(&:name).to_sentence %>
You'll find everything you need to know on how to do this here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html