Hmmm... this is supposed to work - the join table should have its name aliased. This would be a good thing to add to the Rails Lighthouse - rails.lighthouseapp.com
--Matt Jones On Aug 5, 2:50 pm, Addy Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > here is the situation > > class Entity < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :parent, :foreign_key => :parent_id, :class_name => > 'Entity' > end > > class Player < Entity > end > > class Team < Entity > has_many :players, :foreign_key => :parent_id, :class_name => > 'Player' > end > > class Club < Entity > has_many :teams, :foreign_key => :parent_id, :class_name => 'Team' > has_many :players, :through => :teams, :foreign_key > => :parent_id, :class_name => 'Player' > end > > Mysql::Error: Not unique table/alias: 'entities': SELECT count(*) AS > count_all FROM `entities` INNER JOIN `entities` ON > `entities`.parent_id = `entities`.id WHERE ((`entities`.parent_id = > 48) AND (( (`entities`.`entity_type` = 'Team' ) ))) AND > ( `entities`.`entity_type` = 'Player' ) > > how do get over this problem? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
