Michael Hartl rails tutorial twitter @replies feature extension

Rails
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Hi,
I completed the Michael H. tutorial, and i’m trying to add the
twitter
like @replies feature to the app but I’m completely lost. Here is what I
have so far.

I added the in_reply_to column to the Micropost Model and created a
User,
has_many through microposts relationship. I’m lost after that. Any
assistance will be greatly appreciated.

User Model

has_many :microposts, dependent: :destroy
has_many :replies, through: :microposts, source: :in_reply_to

Micropost Model

class Micropost < ActiveRecord::Base

attr_accessible :content
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :in_reply_to, class_name: “User”

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On Friday, 14 June 2013 06:23:32 UTC-7, dasibre wrote:

User Model
belongs_to :in_reply_to, class_name: “User”

Here’s a hint: how should in_reply_to get a value? Perhaps you could set
it
based on scanning the text of the micropost about to be created?

–Matt J.

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On Saturday, June 15, 2013 4:10:52 PM UTC-4, Matt J. wrote:

I added the in_reply_to column to the Micropost Model and created a User,
class Micropost < ActiveRecord::Base

Thanks for the hint, i think thats one of the things i couldn’t figure
out.
It was a trial and error to get this far.