ruby on rails - Assiging model reccord to more than one user -

i'm working on rails app , 1 of features lets give virtual gifts other users.

one user gives gift(through gift model) user. 1 user giver(gift.giver) other user receiver (gift.receiver)

my question how assign each gift 2 users, giver , receiver, can later call user.gifts_received list of gifts user received , user.gifts_given list of gifts user gave?

is better have user.gifts instead of user.gifts_received , user.gifts_given? plan on using acts_as_follower gem let users see gifts given , received users follow.

in past apps, when user created post, post belonged 1 user, assigned with:

@post.user = current_user 

and how use acts_as_follower gem gifts 1 user user follows?

i guessing gift model looks this:

gift.rb

class gift < activerecord::base   belongs_to :giver, class_name: 'user'   belongs_to :receiver, class_name: 'user'    ... end 

so this, need make user model this, acts_as_follower stuff added:

user.rb

class user < activerecord::base   has_many :given_gifts, class_name: 'gift', foreign_key: 'giver_id'   has_many :received_gifts, class_name: 'gift', foreign_key: 'receiver_id'    acts_as_followable   acts_as_follower    ... end 

you need these part of gift migration:

f.integer :receiver_id f.integer :giver_id 

which gives access these methods when assigned:

giver = user.first receiver = user.last gift = gift.create(giver: giver, receiver: receiver) gift.giver => giver gift.receiver => receiver giver.given_gifts => [gift] receiver.received_gifts => [gift] 

and acts_as_follower methods (using variables above):

giver.follow(receiver) gift.where(receiver_id: giver.all_following.pluck(:id)) => [gift] 

where allows pass in array of values queried against in db (which all_following returns).

acts follower gem.

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