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newbie question:

what is the best way in rails to make content managed data that isn't iterated? eg. on a 'contact us' page i have an business address field that the client needs to be able to update, and there are many other fields on the site that need to be content managed.... should i create one table that stores all this data and access it in the pages action?

i've created a table called 'blocks' which contains fields 'id', 'name' and 'content'

and in the controller

def contactus      address = Block.find(:first, :conditions => { :name => "businessaddress"}) end

which i can then access from the view, except this seems cumbersome.

better ideas?

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How about creating a model (and a table) called contact information....

You're code will be a lot cleaner and meaningfull.

usually compagnies have multiple contacts they like to make visible, having a model for such purpose should provide good starting point and allow for expension (like one business contact, the invoicing contact, etc.)

Regards,

Jean-Marc http://m2i3.com/