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Hey, I have a system that I am trying to design, it contains news articles, events, etc... There is model representing articles, one representing events, etc... Articles or events can be active or inactive, so I can do a query to return all active articles, all articles or all inactive articles. The question that I have is what would be the best way to design this. Right now I have each

Sorry if this is a complete newbish question, but I''m trying to wrap my head around creating custom classes in my rails webapp. I''m normally a Java developer, but I figured I''d give RoR a try and see how I like it, and whether it would be useful for production use with a new client. Anyways, what are the best practices for custom classes? Where and/or how do I create