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I'd suggest you create your own solution without ancestry.

I had a similar problem. I have an User model and each user must has one or more parents and one or more children. So I created a join table called users_parents with two attributes user_id and parent_id. In my User model I added to has_and_belongs_to_many entries:

has_and_belongs_to_many :parents, class_name: User, join_table: :users_parents, foreign_key: :user_id, association_foreign_key: :parent_id

has_and_belongs_to_many :children, class_name: User, join_table: :users_parents, foreign_key: :parent_id, association_foreign_key: :user_id

That way, I can add an user as parent of several users or an user as child of several users.

my_user.parents will return all my_user parents and my_user.children will return all my_user children

--  Nielson Rolim  nielson.rolim@gmail.com

I wanna create and edit people but ancestry only provides for one parent_id so how can i have two on a form

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