I think the differences between Customer and Employee is Role, when you assign a 'customer' role, he is a customer.
So you could use Role to distinguish different person, and a person may have many roles class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :roles has_many :addresses end On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Paritian Thakkar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I am trying to define relationship between real-world entities in my > application.... But I am feel, I am over-representing it a little and > hence would like your opinion. > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > has_and_belongs_to_many :user_groups > > attr_accessible :username, :email, :password, :password_confirmation > > end > > class Customer < User > has_many :orders > > belongs_to :person > end > > class Employee < User > belongs_to :person > > end > > class Person < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :addresses > end > > > Should I merge User and Person Models? Basically user has only login > information while Person has details like first_name, last_name, address > and so on.... > > Also, should Customer and Employee inherit from Person or User? Trying > to normalize stuff but dont want to over-normalize it too.. > > Thank you. > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
