On 12 January 2011 10:14, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > Or just put the profile data in the user table of course.
yebbut... encapsulation *is* a "good thing"... and you wouldn't want to encourage the OP to denormalise for the sake of it. It is nice to have classes responsible for their own stuff. I like to keep the User model of my own for just authentication/essential info, and delegate addresses, telephones, hobbies, etc, to their own classes... horses for courses :-) -- 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.

