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

I was looking for the same feature, if you don't want to return an array but a ActiveRecord::AssociationRelation, you can use << instead of +. (See the ActiveRecord documentation)

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :father, :class_name => 'Person'
  belongs_to :mother, :class_name => 'Person'

  has_many :children_of_father, :class_name => 'Person', :foreign_key => 'father_id'
  has_many :children_of_mother, :class_name => 'Person', :foreign_key => 'mother_id'

  def children
     children_of_mother << children_of_father
  end
end