Has and belongs to many with a single table

Rails
1

Is it posible to implement “Has and belongs to many” with a single
table?

Like this:

table events
id: integer
description: text

table related_events
id_event: integer
id_related_event: integer

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base

How can i add a has and belong to many reference to self?

end

Thank you!

2

I would recommend doing a has_many :through back to itself. Just make
sure you do call the event table two different things like:

class RelatedEvents
belongs_to :first_event
belongs_to :second_event
end

Emmanuel O. wrote:

Is it posible to implement “Has and belongs to many” with a single
table?

Like this:

table events
id: integer
description: text

table related_events
id_event: integer
id_related_event: integer

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base

How can i add a has and belong to many reference to self?

end

Thank you!

3

Aryk G. wrote:

I would recommend doing a has_many :through back to itself. Just make
sure you do call the event table two different things like:

class RelatedEvents
belongs_to :first_event
belongs_to :second_event
end

Mmmmm i don’t quite get the idea :frowning:

4

It’s pretty simple, all you need to do is to create 2 foreign keys and
specify to where they point to.

class Event << ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :first_event, :class_name => “Event”, :foreign_key =>
“first_event_id”
belongs_to :second_event, :class_name => “Event”, :foreign_key =>
“second_event_id”

end

On Jun 13, 3:33 pm, Emmanuel O. [email protected]