On 14 February 2012 09:54, Marcos Korody <[email protected]> wrote: > I have two different models. USERS and POSTS. Untill the present moment I > have a pretty straight forward relationship between them. > > I want a USER to also have the ability to set an original AUTHOR to the > content of his POST. > In other words, a POST belongs to a USER (submitter who's posting some > content) and also belongs to an original AUTHOR(a person who's post content > is originaly from).
Not an odd request at all :-) You want to look online for "rails self referential associations" But essentially, in your User model add: belongs_to :author, :class_name => "User" and add a migration for the author_id field to be added to the users table. -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
