Question

I have these two tables

tickets – id, user_id, manager_id etc

users – id, first_name etc

user_id and manager_id are both references for users

using rails is there a way of creating a find that pulls in the users info and managers(users) info.

The sql joins would look abit like this –

LEFT JOIN users ON users.id = tickets.user_id

LEFT JOIN users as managers ON managers.id = tickets.manager_id

Expected result

ticket:
  subject: something interesting
  user_id: 1
  manager_id: 3
  user:
   id: 1
   name: Frank
  manager:
   id: 3
   name: Alex

Thanks, Alex

Answer 1

If I understood you correctly, you should use something like:

class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
   belongs_to :manager, :class_name => "User"
end

class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :tickets
end

Then you can use

@ticket = Ticket.first
@ticket.user.name    >> "Frank"
@ticket.manager.name >> "Alex"