Ruby on Rails

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jason O <lostrennie@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am in the process of building my first project for the company I work for
> and I am stumped as how to tackle my database information problem.

Is this a legacy DB you're stuck with, or are you trying to design
one for your app?

> What I am dealing with is a database with a list of users and a separate
> table with a list of articles that users have written. The PEOPLE table
> includes the normal name conventions as so forth, but also a value called
> Author_ID which is derived from a government entity.
>
> The ARTICLES table has a value which lists the authors of the articles,
> normally 2-7 authors per article. Here, I am not sure if this short be an
> array or just a string. I currently have it as a string.

Is this a collection of AUTHOR_IDs, or names?

It would probably help to gist the relevant parts of your schema.

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