# Naming the visitor's contact object (zena)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-the-visitors-contact-object-zena/149028>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 19, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-the-visitors-contact-object-zena/149028 "2008-09-19T15:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-the-visitors-contact-object-zena/149028/1 "2008-09-19T15:09:09Z")

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Hi there !

I’m working on a multi-site CMS ([http://zenadmin.org](http://zenadmin.org)). In this tool, a  
user can participate in many websites. In each of these websites,  
there is a Contact node (record) for this user.

[skip] This record is used to show the person’s information _for a  
specific website_ since nodes are not shared across websites but users  
are [/skip].

I have a nice omnigraffle drawing of the problem on zena’s blog:  
[http://zenadmin.org/448](http://zenadmin.org/448)  
(zafu is the templating language, zena is the rails app).

Hopefully, someone with better english skills then me might come up  
with an idea to name the visitor’s Contact…

I would like to find a single word name since it’s used in pseudo sql  
queries like:

 ... list of documents created by the visitor in the current project ... 

Any idea, comment or remark welcome !

Gaspard

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**Author:** ![gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@gazoduc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gazoduc)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-the-visitors-contact-object-zena/149028/2 "2008-09-19T16:55:38Z")

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Anyone with an idea on this topic ?

Thanks for any reply…

Gaspard