Now if we could just stop thinking that the world is composed solely of middle class white anglo saxon males and face the reality. Naming conventions in some cultures go well beyond forename plus surname. Those people also live in the UK.
I also note that you are omitting titles and suffixes such as "Queen Elizabeth II" who is also called "Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor". Or even "Hank Williams Jr" or "Hank WIlliams III" or "Sir Robert Geldof" Some people have only one name which is neither a forename or a surname. Lets ignore the artist formerly known a Prince for a moment :) To be honest I would go with user_id :integer title :string forename :string midname :string surname :string suffixes :string gender :string and treat midname as a space separated list of names (although this wont handle names like 'st clair' correctly). -- 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.
