Best way to set up user preferences for multiple users?

Rails
1

I have a User model that contains all of the users’ account
information, but now I’d like to give each user their own set of
preferences. Using a database, what’s the “best” solution to this?

I was thinking of setting up a Preference model with something along
these lines:

id, user_id, preference_value_1, preference_value_2, etc.

And then for the relationship, doing something like:

class User
has_one :preference
end

class Preference
has_one :user
end

Is this the right way to go about doing this, or is there a better way?

Thanks,
Rob

2

Personally I go for the parameter, value type. And then add a special
get_prefs and set_prefs methods to
ie.

id, user_id, pref_name, value

class User
has_many :preferences
def get_pref(pref_name) {//returns strinf}
def set_pref(pref_name, value) {//returns bool}

class Preference
belongs_to :user

On 9/16/06, Robert G. [email protected] wrote:

And then for the relationship, doing something like:

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Jon Gretar B.
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