You can enforce unique users in your table using
''validates_uniqueness_of''.
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html#M000658
Hammed
On 26/11/05, tmatsumoto <tmatsumoto-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> i''d gone through the tutorial in agile web dev for building an
> application and i noticed for the user table, if you entered the same
> user a new id would be assigned and the name would be duplicated. in
> other programming experience i''d keep the user table with no
> duplicates, but still use the existing id in join tables.
>
> for instance a table of authors. that would have no duplicates, but
> each time an article of an author was written the existing authors id
> would be assigned to the article id in a join table.
>
> is there a validation method or a similar process for doing this in
> rails?
>
> Todd
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