Re: [Rails] how to deal with gender

Ruby on Rails Thursday, July 29, 2010

I would use the gender attribute instead of creating a new entity in my model... But it depends on your model design

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Subject: [Rails] how to deal with gender
From: bingo bob <lists@ruby-forum.com>
Date: 07/29/2010 10:25

Appreciate this is a path well travelled probably.

What's the best way of to deal with gender.

i.e. a Person is either Male or Female (generally and fot my purposes
I'll stick with that rule).

So is it best to go Person with an attribute gender, or, I guess it's
best to do something like this - the rails way?

Person
belongs_to: gender

Gender
has_many: people

Sorry if this is such an obvious question just want to do it right.
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