Question

I’ve built myself a Rails Engine that requires that the main app have a Users table. I need to be able to create a relationship between one of the models in my engine and the Users table in the main app. Is this more complicated than just saying belongs_to :user? I’m getting an error that says the User object is nil, but when I use the console it returns the right user. My assumption is that Rails assumed my belongs_to :user call meant a User’s class in the same namespace as the engine, i.e. MyEngine::User. Is there a way for me to explicitly specify that the User class is in the main app’s namespace and not the engine’s?

Answer 1

Turns out the engine recognizes the MainApp’s user class by default just by saying belongs_to :user. I was doing something else wrong :/.