Rails has_many with alias name

ruby-on-rails has-many
doctororange picture doctororange · Jul 22, 2009 · Viewed 102k times · Source

In my User model I could have:

has_many :tasks

and in my Task model:

belongs_to :user

Then, supposing the foreign key 'user_id' was stored in the tasks table, I could use:

@user.tasks

My question is, how do I declare the has_many relationship such that I can refer to a User's Tasks as:

@user.jobs

... or ...

@user.foobars

Thanks a heap.

Answer

Sam Saffron picture Sam Saffron · Jul 22, 2009

Give this a shot: 

has_many :jobs, foreign_key: "user_id", class_name: "Task"

Note, that :as is used for polymorphic associations.

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