has_many :through basic fubar

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I'm trying to do, what seems like, a very basic join. However, the association just doesn't seem to work. I'm sure it's something very simple but I don't know what.

class Role < ActiveRecord::Base   belongs_to :packages   belongs_to :users end

class Package < ActiveRecord::Base   has_many :roles   has_many :users, :through => :roles end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base   has_many :roles   has_many :packages, :through => :roles end

  create_table "packages", :force => true do |t|     t.string "tracking"     t.datetime "created_at"     t.datetime "updated_at"   end

  create_table "roles", :force => true do |t|     t.integer "user_id"     t.integer "package_id"     t.string "role"   end

  create_table "users", :force => true do |t|     t.string "user_name"     t.string "first"     t.string "last"   end

With that, I can do:

@package = Package.new @roles = @package.roles

@roles.inspect # OK

But I can't do:

@package = Package.new @users = @package.users

or not:

@package.roles.collect { |a| a.users } @users = @package.users

Nada...

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Try to change :

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Oh for Pete's sake. I thought I tried that both ways... I probably had some other error at the time. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!