Best Practice: Document Attachments

Rails
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Hi all,

I’m working on a project for a local charity to track donors, donations,
assets, and a few other things. They would like the ability to attach
files/documents to all of their records.

Do I have to setup database tables and models for each of my models or
is there some way to have a generic document class that can belong_to
anything?

In other words, rather than setting up donor_documents,
donation_documents, and asset_documents, is there some way I can set up
a single documents model???

Thanks for the input!

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a single documents model???
You want a polymorphic model… and that does exactly what you’re
talking
about. look in the docs for has_many and the polymporphic section.