I would like to selectively reuse some data. I have two groups of people who want very similar information about subject experts - but they want slightly different fields and/or want to see the other group's information but should not be able to edit it.
If I create the following models, don't the child models have access to all the parent's attributes (unless I override the attribute accessors individually)? class Expert < ActiveRecord::Base # has fields like name, email, title, expertise_according_to_group1, expertise_according_to_group2 end class Group1_Expert < Expert # If I did this, this model would have access to all fields in Expert, right? Including the group2 fields end I could do what I want by just ignoring the group2 fields when showing the expert to group1, but that feels kind of ummm unclean. One can use database views to provide access controls on the underlying table. I would like to do essentially the same thing in Ruby/Rails, but I don't know how. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
