Hi everybody,
I am building some kind of social networking web. I have implemented user registration and now I would like to add another type of registration (authors). I dont know whether to keep the registration simple and add just a checkbox (user and author) and add a new column (user_type) into the existing user table or build a new model Author to manage authors.
Thanks for your thoughts. Cheers Petr
Why does it need to be a type? What makes an author so different to make it different from a common user?
I was planning to create subdomain for each author, so I want to seperate them from the normal users.
Maurício Linhares wrote:
Petr Bobek wrote:
I was planning to create subdomain for each author, so I want to seperate them from the normal users.
Maurício Linhares wrote:
Why does it need to be a type? What makes an author so different to make it different from a common user?
You could use a type column, and single table inheritance, but I suggest creating a separate Author model with its own authors table, and have a user_id in that table. This way, an Author belongs_to a User. All author-specific data goes in the authors table, and you can reuse all of your authentication with the User model.
Alternatively, users could have an author_id, if that makes more sense.