Rails has_many with alias name

Question

Heya! Rails boob here.

In my User model I could have:

has_many :tasks

and in my Task model:

belongs_to :user

Then, supposing the foreign key 'user_id' was stored in the tasks table, I could use:

@user.tasks

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My question is, how do I declare the has_many relationship such that I can refer to a User's Tasks as:

@user.jobs

... or ...

@user.foobars

Thanks a heap.

Answer 1

You could do this two different ways. One is by using "as"

has_many :tasks, :as => :jobs

or

def jobs
     self.tasks
end

Obviously the first one would be the best way to handle it.

Answer 2

Give this a shot:

has_many :jobs, :foreign_key => 'user_id', :class_name => "Task"

Note, that :as is used for polymorphic associations.