Alias table name to facilitate 3 column join table (MySQL or PostgreSQL)

Question

This is a separate question, but it is related to an earlier question: Three Column Join in Rails with Active Scaffold. To sum up: Rails automatically looks for a two colum

Answer 1

I'm assuming that you have something like this joining your models together:

  def self.up
    create_table :my_join_table, :id => false do |t|
      t.integer :employee_id
      t.integer :role_id
      t.integer :project_id
      t.timestamps
    end
  end

If so you, simply need to specify the name of the join table to use with your habtm.

class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :roles, :join_table => "my_join_table"
  has_and_belongs_to_many :projects, :join_table => "my_join_table"
end

class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :roles, :join_table => "my_join_table"
  has_and_belongs_to_many :employees, :join_table => "my_join_table"
end

class Role < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :employees, :join_table => "my_join_table"
  has_and_belongs_to_many :projects, :join_table => "my_join_table"
end