Hi, I'm trying to create an web app where users can write messages to each other. I use the restful_authentication plugin for the users. So they have an user_id. How ever the messages should have a: - sender - receiver - content
As i saw in some screencast the association use the user_id to connect users to something. But in my model there would be 2 user_id column which obviously doesn't work. So how do I do it? My workaround was to create a receiver and sender model which contained a user_id and a message_id. Then the message contained a sender_id, receiver_id and the content. However now I'm stuck somehow. *Maybe it's because 2:30am here and I should be in bed*. I don't know. Is there an easier workaround? Some tutorials, maybe? How do I collect my mails? Have a controller named messages where I tried this, but it doesn't work (I thing my association declaration are the cause): @inbox = current_user.message.find_by_receiver_id(:user) *The Models:* class *Message* < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :sender has_one :receiver validates_presence_of :sender validates_presence_of :receiver validates_length_of :content, :maximum => 4096 end class *Receiver* < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :message end class *Sender* < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :message end class *User* < ActiveRecord::Base (restful_authentication plugin) # Virtual attribute for the unencrypted password attr_accessor :password ... attr_accessible :login, :email, :password, :password_confirmation ... end Greetings and thanks for any kind of help Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
