On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Leandro França <leandroayresfra...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Any advices? > > Don't make customers & suppliers separate models/tables. Make them attributes > of a single model. It seems that ***EVERY*** business/accounting package on > earth makes this same mistake. For anybody in a "broker" type business line, > where it's common to both buy & sell from the same companies, this is a huge > annoyance. > > As for company vs person, I don't have a terribly strong opinion to offer > about 1 model with attribute vs 2 models with inherited base.
Hit send too quickly... You may not even want companies designated via attributes as customer or supplier. You may just want companies, and let the transaction history tell you who's a customer and who's a supplier, as that can change at any time. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottribe/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- 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/BCBDF033-0DA4-460F-9E36-F9BAEAF56DB6%40elevated-dev.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
