How to make assciation of different kind of roles(agent and client)

Question

I am using devise as a user model with rolify for roles

A user has one role called 'client'

A user has one role called 'agent'

I want to make a association like this

class User < ApplicationRecord
  rolify
  has_many :agents # if user role is client will get all agents
  has_many :clients # if user role is agent will get all clients
end

How to make above associations. Please help me. Thanks

Answer 1

I solved the above problem with following associations. Let me know if I am wrong

class User < ApplicationRecord
  rolify
  has_many :user_agents
  has_many :agents, through: :user_agents # if user role is client will get all agents
  has_many :user_clients, class_name: 'UserAgent', foreign_key: :agent_id
  has_many :clients, source: :user, through: :user_clients # if user role is agent will get all clients
end

# field: user_id and agent_id
class UserAgent < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :agent, class_name: 'User'
end