Adding belongs to relationship to Ruby Gem Mailboxer

Question

I am building an e-com application and would like to implement something like a messaging system. In the application, all conversation will be related to either a Prod

Answer 1

Although rewriting a custom Conversation system will be the best long-term solution providing the customization requirement (Like linking with other models for instance), to save some time at the moment I have implement the link with a ConversationLink Model. I hope it would be useful for anyone in the future who are at my position.

Model: conversation_link.rb

class ConversationLink < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :conversation
  belongs_to :linkingObject, polymorphic: true
end

then in each models I target to link with the conversation, I just add:

has_many :conversation_link, as: :linkingObject

This will only allow you to get the related conversation from the linking object, but the coding for reverse linking can be done via functions defined in a Module.

This is not a perfect solution, but at least I do not need to monkey patch the gem...