A few months ago I decided to learn how to use Ruby on Rails, and after learn some Ruby and do some projects by videotutoriales decided to start my own project. Once I made a diagram of classes and relationships that I need, I find my first problem: I need multiple user profiles where to some types of users require more information than others. In addition to each type of user, once registered, will have different home pages with different functions. My intention is to make a polymorphic association from the User model, generate by devise, containing the common attributes of all types of users (email, name, password) to the models user types (chef, singer, athlete, ...):
class User < ActiveRecord::Base ... belongs_to :meta, :polymorphic => true end class Chef < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :user, :as => :meta ... end (more models) According thought, the class of each user would be recorded at the time of the registration, from the form devise registration view, by adding a dropdown selector to choose a single type of user. And to log in, only will be necessary the password and email, without the selector. But I really have no idea of how to do this ( i don't know how enable the selector to record the user class and do the appropriate modifications to the controller Registrations devise or as a redirect to different pages depending on the type of user who logs). I ask for help if you have dealt with a similar problem, if you know some way to do this, or if there is another easier way and efficient. Sorry if I said a bad concept, but have little time using ruby on rails and I'm a little lost and for my bad english!. Thank you very much in advance and regards! PS: I would avoid using gems, as camcam, for the many conditionals that is necessary, that in my opinion, overload the system. I also read concepts such as STI (singular table inheritance), but I thought it would not be applicable here to store variable information for each type of user. -- 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 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/4937f3a89db39a5b680b01e5159cf9b4%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
