Hello, I have a message model which belongs to a user. Users can be deleted, but messages cannot. What can I do to reference a user that created a message when it no longer exists?:
1) Create a dummy user. When a user is deleted, assign the dummy user id to all of its messages. 2) Have a condition to check if the user exists, if not, don't show the user info. 3) Don't really delete the user, just flag it or change its state to inactive. These 3 occured to me. Any other options I should have in consideration? Which one should I follow? Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
