Hi all, I try to implement an internal mail system to my rails app. I found this message [1] on another mailing list, but i need it to be a little different. So here''s the case : i got a user table, a message table, and a communication table. This last one contains the message_id, the sender_id and the receiver_id. I need it for some future improvment. # user.rb has_many :communications, :dependent => :destroy has_many :sent_messages, :class_name => "Message", :through => :communications, :source => :sender, :order => ''created_at DESC'' has_many :received_messages, :class_name => "Message", :foreign_key => "receiver_id", :order => ''created_at DESC'' has_many :unread_messages, :class_name => "Message", :foreign_key => "receiver_id", :conditions => [''read_at IS NULL''], :order => ''created_at DESC'' # communication.rb belongs_to :sender, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => "sender_id" belongs_to :receiver, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key =>"receiver_id" has_one :message # message.rb belongs_to :communication But when i try to get some_user.sent_message, it returns me this error : ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PGError: ERROR: column communications.user_id does not exist LINE 1: ...messages.id = communications.sender_id WHERE (("communica... ^ : SELECT "messages".* FROM "messages" INNER JOIN communications ON messages.id = communications.sender_id WHERE (("communications".user_id = 1)) ORDER BY created_at DESC Obviously, something went wrong and Rails try to get the communications.user_id id place of communications.sender_id. Any help would be appreciate. Thanks ;-) --- [1] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/7fdccddde9b97ffc/6112294580b9e0ce?lnk=gst&q=internal+mail&rnum=1 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---