Folks, I have setup Single Table Inheritance with my User model. Now the user can have multiple roles. In my situation (a school app) the user can be a Teacher (through which I want to access the students, grades etc) and the same user can also be a Parent (through which I want to access the children info). In STI, the type column in the user table can store only one type i.e. either Parent or Teacher. So when this user logs in and I want to access students at one time and children at another - through Teacher or Parent models respectively.
The model hierarchy is as below - class User < ActiveRecord::Base end class Parent < User # relationships and functionality to work on children end class Teacher < User # relationships and functionality to work on students and grades etc end Searched around but can't find anything on this. It doesn't look like I can accomplish this through STI. However I have the Parent and Teacher functionality setup through these STI models. What is the best way to model/enable this? Thanks for any pointers. -S -- 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.
