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Hello all, I''ve recently been working with a model with a lot of boolean attributes and I decided that it''s worth trying to implement a attr_boolean function to cut down on the work. Something like class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_boolean :contact_by_email, :display_real_name, :administrator end which would replace the hand written class User < ActiveRecord::Base def contact_by_email? self.contact_by_email == 1 end...

...with a column in the database for every kind of type: create_table :attributes do |t| t.column :name, :string t.column :type, :string t.column :attr_string, :string t.column :attr_text, :text t.column :attr_integer, :integer . . . t.column :attr_boolean, :boolean end so to access the attribute would be through a function that does a switch against the type. now, which way would be better? the polymorphic way, or the single table way? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.