The most common mistake in rails apps is creating a user object that does way too much. People call it "the God object". Just because a user only has one profile doesn't mean you need to combine those models.
On Mar 14, 2017 8:52 PM, "fugee ohu" <fugee...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 5:31:15 PM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: > On 14 March 2017 at 21:09, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 3:56:22 PM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: > >> > >> On 14 March 2017 at 12:32, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > For an SN site should there be a Profile model A user's gotta have a > >> > profile > >> > I guess right? Then who should pictures belong to, the user or the > >> > user's > >> > profile? > >> > >> Can you give us a clue as to which meaning of SN you are using? > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN does not seem to offer anything that > >> looks particularly likely. > >> > >> Colin > > > > Social Networking > > What is in the users table and what is in the profiles table? You > might want to combine them into one table. Why make things complicated > unless there is a good reason? > > If you do have separate tables then the question as to whether the > pictures belong to the profile or the user is just a matter of how you > wish to organise it. Think about the problem in real world terms. > Would the actual user think of the pictures as being his, or would he > think that they are the property of his profile? > > Colin > > > > > -- > > 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-ta...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/0a8c94f8- > 0b8d-47f5-9380-6193445137b1%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > That's what I'm gonna do Originally the purpose of the profiles was for personals since users could have many I was driven by the challenge more than the reality After I did just about the whole site I decided I don't like this, and I'm scrapping the profile model because first I don't want users to be able to have multiple personas -- 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/3b9f7629-a598-46c9-8e0c-4a7713601a6b%40googlegroups. com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/3b9f7629-a598-46c9-8e0c-4a7713601a6b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/CAK5aKaZFWEthzaJuBo%2BX%2B7PCSofCmn_1_AxqaLakamLNs_kAPg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
