Hi there! I'm working on a little recipe-sharing application, and I want people to be able to click on a link in a user's profile to add them as "friends". I imagined it working where once the link was clicked, the user_id of the friendee and the current_user.id of the friender would be stored in a database table called friends. I asked about this on a ruby forum, and most people told me that the best way to do this was using self-referential has_many :through associations (see: http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/04/21/self-referential-through). They also concluded that it was well out of my league, and I guess I agree. Is there a way to do it my way, without the associations (except for maybe a simple users has_many friends sort of thing)?
Thanks, and let me know if you need more information! Dave
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