Hi, So far I've let Rails and ActiveRecord rule the game. But I think there's some things I should change.
I have a record (called Tag) that is searched by using the default auto incrementable Id that AR provides. On the Tag record I also keep a unique identifier which is a string of 13 characters. That identifier is really the Tag. So my doubts are: - Should I set the custom identifier as the primary key and remove the default id? - Or should I keep the default Id but instead fill it with the custom identifier? - Would it make any difference when thinking of performance? I'm currently adding some statistics record for each of those Tags. So one tag "has_many" statistic records. And this statistics record has the Tag identifier stored. That's when I thought that the common key to tie them together should be the custom identifier instead of the default id. Any opinions? I hope I managed to explain my doubts. Cheers. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
