# User accounts

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-accounts/90840>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 2, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-accounts/90840 "2007-04-02T09:04:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-accounts/90840/1 "2007-04-02T09:04:16Z")

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I’m creating an application that will have a user creating an  
account.

Should I split the user model into two? user, user\_info.

user will contain the essential: id, login, hashed\_password  
user\_info will contain all the other information: first name, last  
name, address, etc.

I plan to have the user login and store its user model into the  
session. This way, it does not need to store the user\_info model into  
the session. Also, when logging in, the login search for the user will  
be quicker due to a smaller table size.

Is this a good idea? Any possible problems down the road?

Thanks