Rails - Jan 2006 - Multiple Associations With The Same Object

I have a Company object which has multiple Contacts 
(has_many/belongs_to)  I would like one of the contacts to be the 
primary contact.  What''s the best way to do this?  Right now I have:

create table companies (
 id int not null auto_increment,
 name varchar(50) not null,
 primary_id int null,
 constraint fk_company_primary_contact foreign key (primary_id) 
references contacts(id),
 primary key (id)
);

create table contacts (
 id int not null auto_increment,
 name varchar(100) not null,
 company_id int not null,
 primary key (id)
);

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base

  has_many :contacts
  has_one :primary_contact,
          :class_name => ''Contact''

  ...
end

class

class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :company

  ...
end

Can someone help me?

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I''ve not tried it, but I''d think you could do something like
this:


class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :contacts
  has_one :primary_contact
  ...
end


class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :company
  ...
end

class PrimaryContact < Contact
end


Although you may have to add a "where clause" to the PrimaryContact
class to
define how to identify the primary contact.