Thanks a lot, I will try that out!

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:58:01 PM UTC+8, Jeremy Evans wrote:
>
> On Monday, November 19, 2012 7:26:51 PM UTC-8, Stefan Rohlfing wrote:
>
>>
>> You probably don't want to add friends as an association.  I would use a 
>>> simple method:
>>>
>>>   class User < Sequel::Model
>>>     def friends
>>>       follows & followers
>>>     end
>>>   end
>>>
>>> since friends appears to be the intersection of follows and followers.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for this simple and elegant implementation. However, I am still 
>> interested to know I could achieve the same result using an association. Or 
>> would you in this case just write the raw SQL query?
>>
>>
> You could probably use an custom association if you wanted to:
>
>   User.many_to_many :friends, :class=>User, 
> :dataset=>proc{User.join(:relationships___ru, :user_id => 
> :nickname).join(:relationships___rf, 
> :follower_id=>:users__nickname).where(:ru__follower_id=>nickname, 
> :rf__user_id=>nickname)}
>
> Writing an eager loader for the association is left as an exercise to the 
> reader. :)
>
> Jeremy
>

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