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...guring out how to make a self- referential HABTM bi-directional. I have a Employee class. Each employee can have a couple of bosses, who are also employees. The employee class has the following HABTM: has_and_belongs_to_many :bosses, :class_name => "Employee", :join_table => "bosses_courses", :association_foreign_key => "boss_id", :foreign_key => "employee_id" Now this works fine.. but only one way. I can get all bosses of an employee but I can''t get all employees of a boss. In hindsight I think it probaby would have been better to use a :thro...