Rails has_many with alias name

Question

In my User model I could have:

has_many :tasks

and in my Task model:

belongs_to :user

Then, supposing the foreign key 'user_id' was stored in the tasks table, I could use:

@user.tasks

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My question is, how do I declare the has_many relationship such that I can refer to a User's Tasks as:

@user.jobs

... or ...

@user.foobars

Thanks a heap.

Answer 1

Give this a shot:

has_many :jobs, foreign_key: 'user_id', class_name: 'Task'

Note, that :as is used for polymorphic associations.

Also, foreign_key option for has_many.