On 25 May 2013 03:55, Peter <pe...@poproj.com> wrote: > Can I please get everyone's opinion? Should customers and admins be on > separate tables? I'm developing an application that has two kinds of users, > a customer and an administrator.
You have given the game away here by describing them as 'kinds of users'. Have one table and distinguish the users types with a boolean, for example. I guess they will both have to login for example, and that is much easier with one table. You could look at the cancan gem to handle the roles but it may be simpler just to use before_filters to control the access. > > The application basically is a shopping cart. Customers from the internet > create their accounts so they are able to buy my products. But there are > also administrators (admins). Admins are my employees. They maybe call new > customers and try to sell them my products. They have the ability to create, > update and manage customers' accounts. Admins are able to buy products for > customers upon their request. I hope that makes sense. > > Given that admins and customers have different roles but are the same > objects, users, should they be in separate tables? Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/5f95a7f7-1368-43f3-ac54-18b0dfa64dfb%40googlegroups.com?hl=en-US. > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLvJgAt_G5oc3zvB9gVVZ3KcvhH_tCAAK89gBWi9iaeztg%40mail.gmail.com?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
