Colin Law wrote in post #1052938: > On 23 March 2012 09:24, bingo bob <[email protected]> wrote: >> "owned" by different users who may have it as a different position in >> Freddy >> Rod (3, male) > A couple of questions > Are all the Rod records identical except for which user they belong to?
No they're not - for example one user might have rod as position 3 and another user might love the name and have it as the number 1 choice. >> Freddy (2, male) > > What if one of the Freddys is female? Maybe not likely with this name > but there are names that can be both. True - in my system the user simply designates a name as either M or F, gender is an attribute of name...quite possible to have the same name as both M and F and rightly so, actually current schema attached in case it helps. Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/7181/schema.rb -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
