If you want that to be a class method on Post you'll have to pass in the id of the user I think.
How about something like: def self.find_other_users_posts(this_user) self.find(:all, :conditions => ["user_id <> ?", this_user.id]) end HTH, -Roy On Aug 25, 1:33 pm, Geekyra <gkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have 3 model, User, Post, Comment with definition like below > > class Post < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :user > has_many :comments > def self.find_other_user_posts > ? > end > end > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :posts > has_many :comments > has_many :posts_commented_on, :through => :comments, :source > => :posts > end > class Comment< ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :post > belongs_to :user > end > > User can have many post and many comment, question is I want to make > method in Post model that returning collection of posts. The method > will find posts and comments that doesn't belong to current user. For > example there are > > Post: A have Comment: A1 > Post: B have Comment: B1, B2, B3, B4 > Post: C have Comment: C1, C2 > Post: D have Comment: nil > Post: E have Comment: nil > Post: F have Comment: F1, F2, F3 > > current user own Post A, E and Comment A1, B2, so calling : > > @posts = Post.find_other_user_posts > > will return collection of C, D, F posts. > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---