Rails Model has_many with multiple foreign_keys

Question

Relatively new to rails and trying to model a very simple family \"tree\" with a single Person model that has a name, gender, father_id and mother_id (2 parents). Below is b

Answer 1

To improve on Kenzie's answer, you can achieve an ActiveRecord Relation by defining Person#children like:

def children
   children_of_mother.merge(children_of_father)
end

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