Radhames Brito wrote: > from my fourth comment > > I presume that your models are Admin, Owner, User and Client (or >>> similar names). >>> >> > >> yes exactly, but i created separated models because there would be a lot of >> conditional validations if i didnt, >> for example owners can manage a companies but a user should belong to a >> company. > > > >> >> The fact that you worded your initial requirement as >>> I have pointed out above suggests that these are all Users with >>> different roles. >>> >> > yes but i would require different controllers and views for each > roles/type >> of user,
That doesn't mean you need different models to go along with them. > and what i call user, which is the >> company employee in this case, has many roles. HABTM roles is perfectly feasible. You might want to use something like rails_authorization or CanCan to make managing privileges easier. >> > > > > I though about all this before, but the reason i have hesitated to do it >> this way is because of the validations, excess in attributes >> for the roles/types that dont require them and possible security issues. Huh? No. A User is a User is a User, if I understand correctly. Stop trying to justify a bad design decision. >> >> I see not way of avoiding the creation of a very fat user model, with lots >> of accesible attributes dynamically changing and lots of scopes. There's nothing wrong with a fat model if it is the best representation for your data. But I'd be more inclined to use various has_ones for the additional information. I'm doing something like this in a medical records app I'm working on, where clinicians and patients are both Users, but each patient record also has_one Chart to hold medical information that clinicians don't have stored. 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
