On 1 Feb 2011, at 17:51, Chris Gallagher <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > This all works fine and user maps to usermailbox through user_id. > > The problem Im having is that the usermailbox table also has a > "other_user_id" field which also links back to the users table. I cannot > for the life of me figure out how I set this up in the model so that i > would be able to call something along the lines of: > > for item in @user.user_mailboxes > > item.other_user.first_name > > end > > So in essence my issue is that I have two fields in one table pointing > back at the same table and need to setup associations. >
belongs_to :foo, :class_name => 'Bar' creates an association with Bar usin foo_id as the foreign key Fred > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > Chris > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > 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-talk@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. > -- 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-talk@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.
