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2006 Aug 16
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Creating a comments system for multiple types of content
...My idea is something like having another attribute in the comment model 
that specifies the sort of content (model) it is associated with:
create_table :comments do |t|
  t.column "subject", :string, :null => false
  t.column "body", :text, :null => false
  t.column "model_type_id", :integer, :null => false
  t.column "model_type", :varchar, :null => false
end
Then the data rows could look like these:
# This item is associated with news_item ID = 1
some_comment:
  subject: "this is a comment"
  body: "and this is its content"
  mode...