How do I do reflexive self-join relationships in ActiveRecord?

Question

I\'m trying to implement a social networking style friendship model and I didnt have much much luck trying to figure out the plugins available out there. I think I\'ll learn

Answer 1

I'm surprised no one has pointed to the recent Ryan Bates's screencast on the topic :)

Hope this helps!.

Excerpt from Ryan '... requires a self-referential association on the User model to define friends/followers'