On 25 November 2010 20:10, Markus Zm <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering how to write or read an additional attribute in the > through table. > Beside the foreign key, I have in the 'Responsible' table an additional > data field 'type' to set the kind of 'responsibility' for the company.
Don't use 'type' it is a reserved word. Rails will think you are doing STI. See http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReservedWords > Can I access it from the user or company model? You have to specify which of the responsibles for the user you want, so for example user.responsibles[0].type Colin > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :responsibles > has_many :companies, :through => :responsibles > end > > class Company < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :responsibles > has_many :users, :through => :responsibles > end > > class Responsible < ActiveRecord::Base > # datafields: user_id, company_id, type:string > belongs_to :user > belongs_to :company > end -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
