Has_many and has_and_belongs_to conflit

Rails
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Hi,

I have 2 models: User and Article.

I have this relationship:

  • User has many articles (and Article belongs to user)
  • User has and belongs to many articles (and Article habtm users)

But this is tricky because of: current_user.articles …this can return
articles thanks to has_many and has_and_belongs_to relations. So
there’s a collision.

How can I ask articles thanks has_and_belongs_to explicitly. And thanks
has_many only too?

Thanks

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On May 31, 8:49 am, “David B.” [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

But this is tricky because of: current_user.articles …this can return
articles thanks to has_many and has_and_belongs_to relations. So
there’s a collision.

How can I ask articles thanks has_and_belongs_to explicitly. And thanks
has_many only too?

Call one of the relationships something else, eg
has_many :something_articles, :class_name => “Article”

Fred

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Frederick C. wrote:

On May 31, 8:49�am, “David B.” [email protected] wrote:

Call one of the relationships something else, eg
has_many :something_articles, :class_name => “Article”

Fred

Thank you Fred