Ruby on Rails

Do these addresses have any difference besides being primary or secondary? Are there extra fields in one that are not in the other? Or is primary maybe a boolean on the address object?

Walter

On May 21, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Elizabeth McGurty <emcg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a parent table.  And associated with that parent table is two possible addresses, a primary one and/or an alternative: (has_many and accepts_nested_attributes_for).
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> Rather than creating a second addresses table, I have used a flag, address_type to distinguish primary from alternative, which will apparently only be useful if I can create a condition on fields_for
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> But now as I explore and research more, seems that I cannot create a condition on fields_for addresses, type => 'alternative' or 'primary'.  
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> I want to utilize Rails associations... Should I just create tables: primary_addresses and alternative_addresses?
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> Thanks,
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> Liz
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