Rails - Oct 2005 - belongs_to , has_one or single table inheritance

Hi,
I''m looking to have a group of Patients, and Clinicians. Both of which
are
users.
but i''m having some trouble. Basically, I want both to be able to login
and
then be redirected to a different setion of the website.

I was thinking of doing it this way,

user.rb :
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :patient
has_one :clinician
#....
end

patient.rb :
class Patient < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end

patient.rb :
class Clinician < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
end

but a User is either a patient, or a clinician. Not both. Is single table
inheritance a better answer? Anyone have a link where something similar is
being done? Thanks
-matt


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Although I don''t have a lot of knowledge on single table inheritance
it does seem more logical to do that the other solution :-)

Jaap

On 10/22/05, Matt Carr <bikokid-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>  I''m looking to have a group of Patients, and Clinicians.  Both of
which are
> users.
>  but i''m having some trouble. Basically, I want both to be able to
login and
> then be redirected to a different setion of the website.
>
>  I was thinking of doing it this way,
>
>  user.rb :
>  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
>     has_one :patient
>     has_one :clinician
>     #....
>  end
>
>  patient.rb :
>  class Patient < ActiveRecord::Base
>     belongs_to :user
>  end
>
>  patient.rb :
>  class Clinician < ActiveRecord::Base
>     belongs_to :user
>  end
>
>  but a User is either a patient, or a clinician. Not both.  Is single table
> inheritance a better answer?  Anyone have a link where something similar is
> being done? Thanks
>  -matt
>
>
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