Johnny Stewart wrote in post #1184570: > No tutorial that I know of.. > > You have the same information for all user types, namely just the > important information for users. So - you keep password, username, first > name, last name, email address etc in the User table. > > Stuff like sport, training ground, weight, height, body-fat etc would go > in a table like AthleticInfo > > stuff like restaurant, food speciality, chef qualifications etc would go > in a table like ChefInfo > > then if user1 is a chef, he would have all the user info + type Chef and > he would have an entry in the chef table > > user2 if she was a footballer would have all the user info + type > Athlete and she would have an entry in the athlete table > > So, you don't need to keep all the chef or athlete data in the user > table - you just have a reference to that info in the relevant table..
Thanks for your response. But isn't this a polymorphic association?. I'am trying to do exactly that with a polymorphic association, that is, create the user table with all the common information, and with meta_type:string (that saves the type of user) and meta_id:integer (that saves the id of the user on his type of user table), and implement the associations y the models after, like this: class User < ActiveRecord::Base ... belongs_to :meta, :polymorphic => true end class Chef < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :user, :as => :meta ... end (more models) So , each register user will have an entry in the user table, and on his user type table. The problem is that i don't know to modify the Registration controller of Devise to do that. Regards! -- 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/2e30b2f890b2f97ee096d1e6333eea6c%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
