Colin Law wrote: > On 26 April 2010 13:55, Dhruva Sagar <dhruva.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>... >> >> eg.) Lets say I have a User model and each user has a 'role' as a column. So >> if I want to internationalize the value of the 'Role', you propose that it >> should be done using the database ? >> I imagine so then for internationalizing to 5 different languages, I would >> then have to create 5 records for this very user with different 'Role' >> values for each language. > > I suggest that the role as a string 'Administrator' or whatever should > not be a column in the users table. The roles should be in a separate > table, with user belongs_to role. I think this will make your life > much easier.
I agree 100%. > > Colin Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
