> Hi, got an issue here ^^ Ok so my problem is that I have a table named
> "users_accounts" and another one named "accounts_messages". As you
> will guess, accounts_messages is a list of messages that
> "users_accounts" can interchange. Here comes my problem:
> for each message I need to know who is the autor and the destinator,
> so in "accounts_messages" I have two parameters which are:
> autor_user_account_id (refers to the autor account) and
> user_account_id (refers to the destinator account).
>
> So in my AccountMessage ruby model class I want to refer two times to
> the users_accounts table. How do I do that? More precisely my question
> is how do I do to keep the relation navigability for the two
> parameters? If I declare those two lines:
> class AccountMessage < ActiveRecord::Base
> belongs_to :autor_user_account
> belongs_to :user_account
>
> ...
> end
>>
Look into the :class_name and :foreign_key parameters that go along
with belongs_to/has_one/has_many.
:class_name
Specify the class name of the association. Use it only if that
name can‘t be inferred from the association name. So has_one :author
will by default be linked to the Author class, but if the real class
name is Person, you‘ll have to specify it with this option.
:foreign_key
Specify the foreign key used for the association. By default this
is guessed to be the name of the association with an "_id" suffix. So
a class that defines a belongs_to :person association will use
"person_id" as the default :foreign_key. Similarly,
belongs_to :favorite_person, :class_name => "Person" will use a
foreign key of "favorite_person_id".
> obviously autor_user_account wont refer alone to the UserAccount
> class. So how can I declare those two parameters in order to use them
> that way for exemple:
>
> message = AccountMessage.find(...)
> printf "autor name: #{message.autor_user_account.name}"
> printf "destinator name: #{message.user_account.name}"
>
> We supose here that the "users_accounts" table has a name property of
> course.
>
> Hope it's understandable :)
> Olivier.
> >
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