Question

I have a user table and a request table. The user table contains employees and clients. I have added user_id and employee_id to the request table.

I thought the following would allow me to have both foreign keys point to the user table:

belongs_to :user          # foreign_key "user_id"
belongs_to :employee, :class_name => "user", :foreign_key => "employee_id" #   foreign_key "employee_id"

But, I get “uninitialized constant request::user” from this form line:

    <%= f.association :employee, :label_method => :full_name, :label => 'Assigned To' %>

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks !!

Answer 1

Have you tried using :class_name => "User" instead of :class_name => "user"?