On 19 May 2014 05:18, Christophe N. <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > I'm not sure what is the best approach for my problem. I need a model > for notification (or alerts) in my application. Notifications are based > on > services, have multiple fields to define conditions and are associated > with a user. Here's an example for a reddit notification: > > user_id: 1 > type: post_karma > condition: above > value: 100 > > And here's a weather notification: > > user_id: 2 > type: temperature > city: Seattle > condition: above > value: 70 > > So both entries are notifications but they have different fields. Should > I: > > - Create different models for each type of notification? > - Create a base notification model and other models for each type that > extend the base one? > - Only have 1 model (notification) and then some sort of condition > table. A notification has multiple conditions.
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