Table associated problem using belongs_to

Rails
1

I have two tables:
Table [packages]
id name user_name

1 PK1 Ray

Table [users]
id name full_name

2 Ray Ray Sun

My purpose is to find the full name when I find packages. So I modify
Model Package to:

class Package < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user,
:class_name => “User”,
:foreign_key => “user_name”
end

Then I run Package.find(1, :include => :user) in Rails console. From the
log, I can see the sql is:
Package Load Including Associations (0.000309) SELECT
packages.id AS t0_r0, packages.name AS t0_r1,
packages.user_name AS t0_r2, users.id AS t1_r0, users.name
AS t1_r1, users.full_name AS t1_r2 FROM packages LEFT OUTER JOIN
users ON users.id = packages.user_name WHERE (packages.id = 1)

But I cannot find the parameters for belongs_to to set
associated_foreign_key like has_and_belongs_to_many. I don’t know how to
deal with it. Please help. Thanks.

2

On 4 Jan 2009, at 08:20, Ray Sun wrote:

But I cannot find the parameters for belongs_to to set
associated_foreign_key like has_and_belongs_to_many. I don’t know
how to
deal with it. Please help. Thanks.

There is no such option for belongs_to. In the rails world your
packages table would have a user_id column.

Fred

3

Frederick C. wrote:

On 4 Jan 2009, at 08:20, Ray Sun wrote:

But I cannot find the parameters for belongs_to to set
associated_foreign_key like has_and_belongs_to_many. I don’t know
how to
deal with it. Please help. Thanks.

There is no such option for belongs_to. In the rails world your
packages table would have a user_id column.

Fred

Is there any way as workaround to satisfy my requirement? Thanks.

4

On 4 Jan 2009, at 13:39, Ray Sun wrote:

packages table would have a user_id column.

Fred

Is there any way as workaround to satisfy my requirement? Thanks.

Nothing obvious springs to mind.

Fred