Multiple has_many relationships to same model

Question

I have a model User that can create Posts

User
 has_many :posts
Post
 belongs_to :user

However, I want to also allow users to save posts as boo

Answer 1

How do you get around this problem?

By giving your associations unique names. It's not that you can't unambiguously access them, it's that your second one is destroying the first one.

Instead of calling both posts, use bookmarked_posts for your second association:

has_many :bookmarked_posts, through: :bookmarks, source: :posts