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I have two tables where one of the tables contains two columns that reference the id of the other. This problem is partially described in the "HowTo..." with the topic title above. My model looks like this: class Relationship < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :relationshiptype, :foreign_key => "relnshiptype" belongs_to :relationshiptype, :foreign_key => "inverserelnshiptype" end It doesn''t work because I think you can''t specify the same model valiable? "relationshiptype" more than once. The table is "relatio...

...is to leave the relationship with a single entry in the relationship table and add an instance method to the model which bundles up those people who have who have a relationship with A and all those who A has a relationship. Given that I also want to get the relationship id, the notes and the relationshiptype, I''ve got something like this (sorry for all the relatee and relation_tos, etc): def allrelations ar1 = self.relation_froms.find(:all, :include => :relator).collect {|c| {"id" =>c.id, "notes" =>c.notes, "reltype" => c.reltype, "person&...