Need data from rails join table, has_many :through

Question

I have 3 tables - users, things, and follows. Users can follow things through the follows table, associating a user_id with a things_id. This would

Answer 1

For people using rails 4, the usage of :order, :select, etc has been deprecated. Now you need to specify as follows:

has_many :users, -> { select 'users.*, follows.is_admin as is_follow_admin' }, :through => :follows

Answer 2

To do this you need to use a bit of SQL in the has_many. Something like this should hopefully work. has_many :users, :through => :follows, :select => 'users.*, follows.is_admin as is_follow_admin'

Then in the loop you should have access to user.is_follow_admin

Answer 3

You might be able to do something like:

<% things.follows.each do |follow| %>
  <%= follow.relation %>
  <%= follow.user %>
<% end %>