Making a Rails relationship with a custom name

Question

I have a model called company and one called user, and User belongs to Company and Company has many Users.

But I want to store on the company model the master company admin user, but I want to do it with a custom name.

So, i want to do this: comapany.owner.name .

How can I do this in Rails 3?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '11 at 15:40

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your Company needs one additional field

owner_id :integer

then add to Company

belongs_to :owner, :class_name => "User"

answered Feb 24 '11 at 15:40

m4risU

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I just can't believe how simple rails is. Thanks a lot! – Mateus Pinheiro Feb 24 '11 at 15:42
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no problem. You can just choose an answer when you are done :) – m4risU Feb 24 '11 at 15:49

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