Need help with association.

HI everybody,

I need some help with model association.

Here I have one user table.

User table. id name 1 XXX 2 YYY 3 ZZZ 4 XYZ

Message Table

id sender_id receiver_id message 1 1 2 HI. HOW R U 2 2 1 YEAH. FINE 3 2 4 HI. WR R U NOW?

1. Here I want get the sender_name and receiver name for an message. Like below    @msg=Message.find(1)    @msg.sender.name    @msg.receiver.name

2. Same like I want to get the sent and received messages for a Particular message.    @user=User.find(1)    @user.sent_msg    @user.received_msg

Can any one help how I have to build the association between these two models, Here I dont want to create one more table.

Regards, T.Veeraa.

HI everybody,

I need some help with model association.

Hi, this isn't the list for this type of question. Head on over to
rubyonrails-talk

Fred