Question

I have inherited a rails application however the tables aren’t using the standard rails foreign keys. My question is, how do I modify foreign keys in the bridge table in Rails.

These are the tables:

Sharedboardonforums{id, board, name, path}

Categories{id, name, cached_slug, category_type}

Sharedboardonforums_categories{id, shared, category}

The Sharedboardonforums_categories is the bridge/pivot table between Sharedboardonforums and Categories. shared is for Sharedboardonforums and category is for Categories.

How do I set the foriegn key for Rails to recognize the shared and category as the keys for Sharedboardonforums and Categories?

Version Rails 2.3.5

Answer 1

I changed the relationship with a combination of has_many and belongs_to. I added :foreign_key to attributes