Two references to another table from one table

Rails
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Hello,
How I can have two references from one table to another table?
I have a table invitations that have a user_id pointing to the person
who invites and I want another user_id to point to the person invited.
Should I forget the conventions in this case?
Thanks.

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Florencio C. wrote:

How I can have two references from one table to another table?
I have a table invitations that have a user_id pointing to the person
who invites and I want another user_id to point to the person invited.
Should I forget the conventions in this case?

I would definitely forget the conventions and make the columns
something like invited_by_id and invited_id. Then in your model:
belongs_to :invited_by, :class_name => “User”, :foreign_key =>
“invited_by_id”
belongs_to :invited, :class_name => “User”, :foreign_key =>
“invited_id”

@invitation.invited.name was invited by @invitation.invited_by.name

Dan M.