Question

I have some problems setting up my desired relationship in my application. Some help and hints would be appreciated!

I have the following models:

• User (id, username)
• Company (id, name)
• Campaign (id, name, company_id)
• Relationship (user_id, company_id)

The relationship is supposed to connect the user to many companies.
Company has_many campaigns.

I want to to connect all the campaigns related to the companies that the specific user follows.

Users > (Relationships) > Companies > Campaigns

I’d better not post some code since it’s just a mess and not at all doing what I want.

I’ve also really tried to follow railstutorial.org, http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/following-users#top and change it the way I want with no success.

I need your help. 🙂

Answer 1

Should be pretty straightforward! This is obviously pseudocode, but here you go:

User
    has_many :relationships
    has_many :companies, :through => :relationships
    has_many :campaigns, :through => :companies

Relationship
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :company

Company
    has_many :relationships
    has_many :users, :through => :relationships
    has_many :campaigns

Campaign
    belongs_to :company