Ruby on Rails

Personally, I would do this:

auctions table

(with the basic shared information of all auctions and an "auction type"))

properties table

property_name (like network, carrier, publisher, etc)

auction_type (like cellphone, book, etc)

auctions_properties

auction_id

property_id

value

That way you can have any number of auction types with any number of specific properties with just 3 tables.

Note that the "value" column would be some string variation (VARCHAR, CHAR, TEXT, etc) depending on your needs, maybe you want to redesign it a little if you want to store different types. Like if you want to store an integer (and retrieve an integer) you'll have to save the original type and reparse it (you could use serialization but that requires a TEXT column and maybe you can't use that many space)

El lun., 16 sept. 2019 a las 17:19, fugee ohu (<fuge...@gmail.com>) escribió:

I was looking at some auction projects that use a single listings table for all auctions but I know on auction sites the form will be different for different types of items like if you're selling a cell phone there'll be a form field for network, carrier, whatever and if you're selling a book there'll be form fields for publisher, year of publication,  so they would have separate tables I assume for books, cell phones, etc? Then how would they treat them all as one?

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