[Rails] rename associations

[Michael Koziarski]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:49:50 -0600, John-Mason P. Shackelford
<john-mason at shackelford.org> wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> In looking at the API for ActiveRecord::Associations::ClassMethods there
> doesn't appear to be a way to rename an association. In doing some
> refactoring I am replacing one table with two but want to preserve the
> old associations names, e.g. I want to be able to still say
> build_type.artifacts instead of having to use the new table name:
> build_type.build_type_artifacts. Is an alias my only option or am I
> missing something glaringly obvious?

No,  it's a little confusing at first.  But I think the functionality
you're looking for is there.

class BuildType < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :anynameyouwant, :classname=>"Artifact"
end


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Cheers

Koz