+1 for STI, if an artist cannot be a curator. Roles with CanCan, if an artist can be a curator.
-- Dheeraj Kumar On Tuesday 25 December 2012 at 5:44 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote: > > > On Dec 24, 11:28 pm, Paul Olivers <li...@ruby-forum.com > (http://ruby-forum.com)> wrote: > > I have 2 distinct types of users (artists and curators) in my system and > > they currently share all associations (eg has_one :portfolio). > > However, a curator shouldn't have a portfolio so I would like to only > > add that association when required. Obviously I could just return nil > > for that method, but it doesn't feel right having that there in the > > first place. > > > > What's the best way to get around this? I've looked at using eval in > > after_find to call the has_one, but couldn't get it working. > > > > > Have you considered STI ? > > Fred > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > thanks! > > > > -- > > Posted viahttp://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-talk@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
