How do you make associations when a table has two unique columns?

Rails
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Having trouble with a somewhat unconventional modelling in Rails
2.2.2.

Take three table.

  1. User model with primary integer id and a unique string guid.

  2. Model X has foreign key to User as integer user_id and its model
    includes
    belongs_to :users

  3. Model Y has foreign key to User as string user_guid and its model
    includes
    belongs_to :users, :foreign_key => ‘user_guid’

This tells Rails which column to use in Model Y to look up Users.
But How do I tell Rails which column to use in User?

In other words, how do I tell Rails to join (or select) from
Users.guid instead of Users.id when referencing Y.user?

The has_one and has_many association has a :primary_key option, but
this seems to be missing on the belongs_to association

How do people work around this? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
=Blair.

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM, blgroup [email protected] wrote:

belongs_to :users

  1. Model Y has foreign key to User as string user_guid and its model
    includes
    belongs_to :users, :foreign_key => ‘user_guid’

Are you sure you don’t mean:
belongs_to :user, :foreign_key => ‘user_guid’ #<- Using singular ‘user’
then Y.user should work fine

How do people work around this? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
=Blair.

Setup your user model like this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
set_primary_key :guid
end

Andrew T.
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