From: "mtbeedee@..." <mtbeedee@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T00:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: noob rails question

Szymon Rozga wrote:
> mtbeedee@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am trying to set up an app where I track games between teams and the
> > winners... So I have one "teams" table with info like the name and
> > coach and whatever with one row per team.
> >
> > I then have a "game" table with the home, away, and winners.  But each
> > of these fields is a "team" really.  How can I set up the model so that
> > game.home and game.away make sense and both refer to the same "team"
> > object.  I want to be able to do things like "if game.winner ==
> > game.home".  Is that clear?
>
> has_one :home, :class_name => "Team"
> has_one :away, :class_name => "Team"
> has_one :winner, :class_name => "Team"
>
> This is off the top of my head, but I believe that this is documented
> under the has_one method in the Rails API.
>
> -Szymon

Dont you need :foreign_key in there somehow?  How does that work?