Modeling help needed

Rails
1

Hi,

I have a modeling problem I can’t figure out yet.

Say I have an club of members and every member can have
favorite other members.

class Member < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :favorites
end

class Favorite < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :member, :foreign_key => :member_id
belongs_to :member, :foreign_key => :favorite_id
end

@tim = Member.create(:name => “Tim”)
@foo = Member.create(:name => “Foo”)

@joe = Member.new(:name => “Joe”)
@joe.favorites << Favorite.create(@tim)
@joe.favorites << Favorite.create(@foo)
@joe.save

I guess that’s not right. I am obviously missing something.
Any help appreciated

2

class Member…
has_many :favorites
has_many :favorite_members, :class_name => “Member”, :through
=> :favorites
end

class Favorite …
belongs_to :member
belongs_to :favorite_member, :class_name => “Member”, :foreign_key
=> :favorite_id
end

…
…
@joe.favorite_members << @foo
@joe.save

That’s how I do it. Though I use friends and friendship, but it’s
basically the same thing.

3

…
…
@joe.favorite_members << @foo
@joe.save

That’s how I do it. Though I use friends and friendship, but it’s
basically the same thing.

Thanks that was fast! I’ll give it a shot.

4

Thanks to silkcom, that works pretty well. However I have to maintain an
additional comment field in my favorite (join) model.

How do I access that comment (read or update) in favorite?

With this I can iterate over all favorites, however …

@joe.favorite_members.each do |f|
end

… with f I’ll access Members, but I would like to access each comment
in Favorites.

Thanks again