Ruby on Rails

Tom Mac wrote:
> Hi
> I have a message model and message_participants table.
> message_participants table because same message goes to various
> recipients.
> Messaging between either company to users OR user to company.
[...]
> Here about 'type' field I am not sure. My question is should I treat
> message_participants like STI or polymorphic? I can't decide it.

STI: single-table *inheritance*. Does User inherit from Company, or
Company from User? Probably not. So no inheritance is involved, and
you probably want a polymorphic association.

Best,
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