I am setting this up, in this way, so that we have some extensibility. We may wish to have some sort of a polymorphic association where multiple models need to have a scheduling model available to them. That being said, as of right now, only the pto model needs it so I am doing a belong_to and has_one association between the two

app/models/paid_time_off.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 class PaidTimeOff < ActiveRecord::Base
   attr_accessible :pto_earned, :pto_taken, :sick_days_earned, :sick_days_taken, :user_id
   belongs_to :user
+  has_one :schedule, :foreign_key => :user_id, :primary_key => :user_id
 
   # Refactor this duplication when it's not 3am
   def sick_days_remaining(val="")

app/models/schedule.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+class Schedule < ActiveRecord::Base
+  attr_accessible :date_begin, :date_end, :event_desc, :event_name, :event_type, :user_id
+  belongs_to :paid_time_off
+end

db/migrate/20130527165832_create_schedules.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+class CreateSchedules < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    create_table :schedules do |t|
+      t.string :event_type
+      t.date :date_begin
+      t.date :date_end
+      t.string :event_name
+      t.string :event_desc
+      t.integer :user_id
+
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+  end
+end

db/schema.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended to check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20130525001150) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20130527165832) do
 
   create_table "paid_time_offs", :force => true do |t|
     t.integer  "user_id"
@@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20130525001150) do
     t.datetime "updated_at",       :null => false
   end
 
+  create_table "schedules", :force => true do |t|
+    t.string   "event_type"
+    t.date     "date_begin"
+    t.date     "date_end"
+    t.string   "event_name"
+    t.string   "event_desc"
+    t.integer  "user_id"
+    t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
+    t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
+  end
+
   create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
     t.string   "email"
     t.string   "password"

db/seeds.rb

@@ -105,6 +105,26 @@ paid_time_off = [
   
   ]
   
+  schedule = [
+        {
+          :user_id => 2,
+          
+        },
+        {
+          :user_id => 3,
+          
+        },
+        {
+          :user_id => 4,
+        
+        },
+        {
+          :user_id => 5,
+          
+        }
+
+    ]
+
 
 users.each do |user_info|
   User.create!(user_info)
@@ -117,3 +137,7 @@ end
 paid_time_off.each do |pto|
   PaidTimeOff.create!(pto)
 end
+
+schedule.each do |event|
+  Schedule.create!(event)
+end

test/fixtures/schedules.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Read about fixtures at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Fixtures.html
+
+one:
+  event_type: MyString
+  date_begin: 2013-05-27
+  date_end: 2013-05-27
+  event_name: MyString
+  event_desc: MyString
+  user_id: 1
+
+two:
+  event_type: MyString
+  date_begin: 2013-05-27
+  date_end: 2013-05-27
+  event_name: MyString
+  event_desc: MyString
+  user_id: 1

test/unit/schedule_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class ScheduleTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  # test "the truth" do
+  #   assert true
+  # end
+end