Specifying multiple foreign keys to another table?

Rails
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Hi,

By convention, if I have a field that is a reference to another record
in
the users table, all I would need to do is to name the column
user_id
and RoR would know it is a reference.

However currently I am working on a table that records actions that
both
impact on another user, with each action performed by another user. Thus
I’d
have 2 columns like impacted_user_id and actioned_by_user_id, how do
I
tell raises that these 2 columns are really references to the users
table
instead of the impacted_user and actioned_by_user tables
respectively?

Thanks.

2

You can use the foregin key, key:

has_many :done_actions, :foreign_key => ‘actioned_by_user_id’,
:class_name => ‘Action’
has_many :impacted_actions, :foreign_key => ‘impacted_user_id’,
:class_name => ‘Action’

belongs_to :actioned_by, :foreign_key => ‘actioned_by_user_id’,
:class_name => ‘User’
belongs_to :impacted, :foreign_key => ‘impacted_user_id’, :class_name
=> ‘User’

Joey