Question

I have a 3 table – users, employees, contacts.
The employees and contacts have a foreign key pointing the the associated user.
Employee belongs_to :user
Contact belongs_to :user
User has many employees, contacts

But, I would like to list the employee name or contact name in the user index view.

Do I need to use a find_by_sql statement?

Thanks,
Dave

Answer 1

You have the belongs_to associations set up already, so you can add the has_one association in your User class for employee and contact, then you can do @user.employee.name or @user.contact.name.

You definitely don’t need find_by_sql for this.