> Thank you all, so very much, for your great, thoughtful posts and solid > advice. You all have excellent points. I've decided to take your advice > as wise council, and stick with the single-table model. :)
Hi, if you find you *DO* have to shard in your application, then I used the approach: todo_items_<user_id> and created a base level todo_items (which held no values) and created the tables todo_items_<user_id> with the MySQL statement: create table todo_items_<user_id> like todo_items Migration can be a bit of a pain though! Once you know the user_id in your controller the you can just do TodoItem.set_table_name "todo_items...@user.id}" Just my 2 pennies worth Allan -- 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-t...@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.