Rails - Sep 2009 - User hierarchy

I''m trying to figure out how to have a two level user relationship.

Photographers have clients.  Clients have one photographer.  Both are
Users.

So I''ve got a User model that looks like this:
=======================================================class User <
ActiveRecord::Base

  has_many :client_associations, :foreign_key =>
''client_id'', :class_name =>
''Association'', :dependent => :destroy
  has_many :clients, :through => :client_associations

  has_many :photographer_associations, :foreign_key =>
''photographer_id'', :class_name =>
''Association'', :dependent
=> :destroy
  has_one :photographer, :through => :photographer_associations

  def self.find_by_login_or_email(login)
    User.find_by_login(login) || User.find_by_email(login)
  end

end
=======================================================And an Association model
that looks like:
=======================================================class Association <
ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :client, :class_name => ''User''
  belongs_to :photographer, :class_name => ''User''
end

When I fill it with some data and fire up the console, running
user.clients.all or user.photographer just gives me an empty array.

What am I doing wrong?

Just had to swap the foreign keys

has_many :client_associations,
    :foreign_key => ''photographer_id'',
    :class_name => ''Association'',
    :dependent => :destroy

  has_many :clients, :through => :client_associations

  has_one :photographer_association,
    :foreign_key => ''client_id'',
    :class_name => ''Association'',
    :dependent => :destroy

  has_one :photographer, :through => :photographer_association

On Sep 13, 12:00 am, rpflo
<rpflore...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m trying to figure out how to have a two level user
relationship.
>
> Photographers have clients.  Clients have one photographer.  Both are
> Users.
>
> So I''ve got a User model that looks like this:
> =======================================================> class User <
ActiveRecord::Base
>
>   has_many :client_associations, :foreign_key =>
> ''client_id'', :class_name =>
''Association'', :dependent => :destroy
>   has_many :clients, :through => :client_associations
>
>   has_many :photographer_associations, :foreign_key =>
> ''photographer_id'', :class_name =>
''Association'', :dependent
> => :destroy
>   has_one :photographer, :through => :photographer_associations
>
>   def self.find_by_login_or_email(login)
>     User.find_by_login(login) || User.find_by_email(login)
>   end
>
> end
> =======================================================> And an
Association model that looks like:
> =======================================================> class
Association < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :client, :class_name => ''User''
>   belongs_to :photographer, :class_name => ''User''
> end
>
> When I fill it with some data and fire up the console, running
> user.clients.all or user.photographer just gives me an empty array.
>
> What am I doing wrong?