Rails devise STI or polymorphic, when having many models?

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Hello

I have a problem. I cant figure out how to solve this authentication problem with devise and i dont know if i should use a polymorphic association in the models or STI.

I have 2 models like Teacher and Student. And i am trying to make a polymorphic association.

Here is my models:

   Teacher model:         class Virksomhed < ActionController::Base         has_one :user, :as => :profileable         devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable         end     Student model:         class Student < ActionController::Base         has_one :user, :as => :profileable         devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable         end     User model:         class User < ActionController::Base         belongs_to :profileable, :polymorphic => true

attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me         end

My routes.rb

School::Application.routes.draw do   devise_for :users   devise_for :teachers   devise_for :students

I have created the views files for both Teachers and Students. But i cant figure out how to have 1 user table and differnts views and sign_up pages.

I want to have 2 sign up pages. One for Teacher and one for Student. I want the User table to store the login information(email, password ...).

How do I create such a thing with devise?

Best regards,

Rails beginner

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In that case, you want to use STI.

To get that working, your user class would inherit from ActiveRecord::Base, but your Student and Teacher class would inherit from User. No associations necessary.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base class Student < User class Teacher < User