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2006 Jul 08
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How to handle dynamically columned tables in rails
...have to do any database programming, schema
designs, etc. Just select the columns and types (from a very limited
list -- date, text, longtext).
Of course in PHP I could just have the program create tables and keep
another table of the lists that has each column in a particular list in
a row (list_num, name_of_list, column_name, column_type).
Another way to do it that doesn''t result in the end user having to
create new tables is to have a table that has core columns for ALL lists
(id, title, description) and then join that table to columns by type of
data on the fly.
So, select * f...