Re: Database and model design for multiple user roles

Colin Law
2012-03-27T16:28:25Z

On 25 March 2012 09:52, pavlos kallis
<pakallis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I would like to create a web application that has two types of users,
> producer and consumer.
> Both users have three fields in common : username,password and email.
> Producer has also the fields address and telephone.
> I could make separate models,views,controller and tables for each user
types
> but this violates DRY. Could Single table inheritance be used and how?

I would probably keep it simple and have a users table with all the
fields in (leave the ones you don''t need empty) and use the cancan gem
to give the different types of users different roles.

Colin

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