When I told some web developer friends that I was going to try to learn Rails while taking a year off before college (when I would have very little internet), they were a little concerned, saying that it was almost essential to get advice from more experienced developers to really understand the nuances of the language.
I have set this google group up to send me emails which I can retrieve on the boat, so hopefully I will be able to learn with your help. Anyways, I have a few questions. I am making a very simple forum as my first real project (one done without a tutorial in a book). I have read Head First Rails by O'Reilly (which was very helpful), and I think I can do it. However, the database organization is what I'm not sure about. How should I organize threads, posts, users, and options? I think that threads and posts I can make a relationship between, and use "thread_id" in the posts table to show which posts belong to which threads. However, this seems like the table will get huge very quickly. On the other hand, I don't think that each thread needs it's own posts table. What do you recommend? Similarly, should a user's options be in the users table, or should options have its own table which connects via a relationship between user id and user_id in the options table? Finally, how should I store global forum settings like default posts per page and stuff like that? Thanks so much for your help! ~Zak Strassberg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
