Question

I have this db schema :

                 |-- comment
       |-- Post -|-- comment
       |
       |         |-- comment
User --|-- Post -|-- comment
       |
       |         |-- comment
       |-- Post -|-- comment

What is the best way to retrieve all comments belonging to one user ?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can us a has_many :through association.

class User
  has_many :posts
  has_many :comments, :through => :posts
end

class Post
   has_many :comments
   belongs_to :user
end

class Comment
  belongs_to :post
end

With that structure you can simply do:

user.comments