Ike <rxv@[...].com>  wrote:

>  In my model, if I have a field, that contains the id to another table, twice
>  (like, primary associate and a secondary associate) I am specifying this as
>  
>  class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
>      belongs_to: associate :foreign_key => "associatekey1"
>      belongs_to: associate :foreign_key => "associatekey2"
>  end
>  
>  This doesn't work -- but my question is how SHOULD the syntax for specifying
>  this look?

Just RTFM.

<http://api.rubyonrails.org/> 

(s.v. "belongs_to):

  belongs_to :firm, :foreign_key =>  "client_of"

Notice the comma? Notice where the colons go?

m.

PS The fact that you could bring yourself to write belongs_to: suggests
that you don't know Ruby. Over the course of a long life in computers I
have found that it is helpful to know the basics of the language in
which one is programming (though, to be quite honest, I've written quite
a bit of Perl without obeying that rule)...

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