Question

Using Mongo and Rails, I would to build a friendship system like facebook:
– Before making the friendship, the use must accept the friendship request

I found a lots of code to do the relationship but never with a relation’s property…

Do you have any idea or clue how to do that to be “respectful” of the NoSQL concept

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

Just use two models, something like this:

class User
  include Mongoid::Document
  has_many :friendships
end

class Friendship
  include Mongoid::Document
  belongs_to :owner, :class_name => "User"
  belongs_to :friend, :class_name => "User"
  field :pending, :type => Boolean, :default => true
end

Does it sound good? Hope this helps!