Hi. My model data is the following: - Place - User - Checkin Instead of having a Checkin that belongs to both User and Place, I chose to add another model, Program, that allows to list all the places a user can checkin into, and also hide the checkins he''s no longer involved in (= the user sign out of a specific program). That give me crazy relationships: Program has_many Checkin (and a double belongs_to Place and User) Checkin belongs_to Program User has_many Program Place has_many Program Place has_many Checkin through Program In order to access a place or a user from a checkin, I do a has_one through (program): Checkin has_one User through Program. It allows me to have clean ActiveRecord relationships. But I don''t know if it is the most suitable, and if has_one is made for this (apparently not really). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/9j1lbDk1rD0J. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.