Ruby on Rails

On 11 July 2016 at 19:41, Johnny Stewart <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> No tutorial that I know of..
>
> You have the same information for all user types, namely just the
> important information for users. So - you keep password, username, first
> name, last name, email address etc in the User table.
>
> Stuff like sport, training ground, weight, height, body-fat etc would go
> in a table like AthleticInfo
>
> stuff like restaurant, food speciality, chef qualifications etc would go
> in a table like ChefInfo
>
> then if user1 is a chef, he would have all the user info + type Chef and
> he would have an entry in the chef table
>
> user2 if she was a footballer would have all the user info + type
> Athlete and she would have an entry in the athlete table
>
> So, you don't need to keep all the chef or athlete data in the user
> table - you just have a reference to that info in the relevant table..

That does not sound like STI, STI is where you *do* store all the
information in one table (Single Table Inheritance), but ignore the
irrelevant parts dependent on the type.

Colin

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