On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:53:14 AM UTC-6, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > I'm sorry, I originally posted this topic on Rails-Deployment, but it's > evidently the wrong area. > I didn't want to, did that on distraction, sorry :) > > Anyway, the original post was this below: > > Hello! > I'm at my very first application in Rails, and I'm learning from Agile > Development with Rails. >
Welcome! > I'm developing a web app that is run as a questionary. > The idea is to create a database of questions (like 50), but use only > like 10-15 each session, for each user. > You can start the questionary only if you give your email > address(validatates_presence_of). > > The point I'm wondering about is : since the answers are multiples and > the sessions too, how can I keep track about whose belong certains > answers? Shall I haven't a pool of mixed answers? > I was thinking about a migration with 16 slots (email, and 15 slots for > each answer), could that work? I know it's not exactly in the DRY logic, > but in this way I'll have a complete table, with which I could also > calculate how many correct answer the user did, and statistics stuff > like that. > Have you considered a structure such as: tables: questions (id, ...) answers (id, question_id, result_id, ...) results (id, email, ...) With... class Question < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :answers end class Answer < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :question belongs_to :result end class Result < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :answers end With this setup, you'd create a Result once a user gives you a valid email address (this could include checking if there is already a "result" from that email address). Then, your main questionnaire form loads a random set of Question instances (10-15) and, using them, renders your form(s) to ask them. As responses come in, you create/validate Answer instances that are linked to the current Result (represents the client's questionnaire session) and the proper Question. -- 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.
