Ruby on Rails

On 1 Feb 2011, at 17:51, Chris Gallagher <lists@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
>
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