Why ? i dont see a problem in the case of roles On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>wrote:
> radhames brito wrote: > > role model is a gem that lets you add roles to the user as a method and > > saves the role into a field on the user table as a bitmask > > that is , lets say you have and array like this > > > > ROLES = %w[admin moderator author banned] > > > > > > this gord in your user model and you have a field in the user table > > called roles_mask > > > [...] > > Wow, what a bad idea. Remind me never to use that gem if that's really > the way it works. Storing multiple values in one DB field (which is > essentially what the bitmask is doing) is generally not a good thing. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > 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.
