Ruby on Rails

Hi There,

Im trying to get my head around a model association issue that I've been
struggling with despite the fact that I know I've done the exact same
thing previously.

I have the following models:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

has_many :user_mailboxes

end

class UserMailbox < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :user

end

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.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Chris

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