belongs_to and has_many to the same model

Question

I am wondering whether there is a way to do this with rails or not. Basically I have a user model and an event model. Event is created by a user and I want to have a foreign

Answer 1

Simply pass some options to belongs_to:

belongs_to :creator, :class_name => "User", :foreign_key => "user_id"

This specifies that the creator method will be a User object, referencing the user_id field.