Rails - Mar 2006 - Conflicting Attributes in Model and Join Table...

Hi all,

I''ve got a Post and User classes.  The Post has a user_id attribute to
point to the user that created it.

I want to implement favorites, so I made Post and User both
"has_and_belongs_to_many" and created a favorites join table.  The
join table has a post_id and a user_id column.

Now when I get my post everything seems to be okay, but in some
contexts, the user_id get''s overwritten.  I think that the user_id
from the join table is being merged into my Post instance.

What would you do differently so that there was no collision between
my Post''s user_id (the author) and the join table''s user_id
(for whom
this post is a favorite)?

Thanks,
  Brad
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Bradley Mazurek