On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jason O <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am in the process of building my first project for the company I work for > and I am stumped as how to tackle my database information problem. Is this a legacy DB you're stuck with, or are you trying to design one for your app? > What I am dealing with is a database with a list of users and a separate > table with a list of articles that users have written. The PEOPLE table > includes the normal name conventions as so forth, but also a value called > Author_ID which is derived from a government entity. > > The ARTICLES table has a value which lists the authors of the articles, > normally 2-7 authors per article. Here, I am not sure if this short be an > array or just a string. I currently have it as a string. Is this a collection of AUTHOR_IDs, or names? It would probably help to gist the relevant parts of your schema. -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan Consulting Availability : Silicon Valley or remote -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CACmC4yCy4xaqR7vv%2B87TrOzhVPepBQ1qPoA7JNKX6ADXBwXv_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
