# Various RoR properties question for ActiveRecords Models **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 30, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/various-ror-properties-question-for-activerecords-models/127608 "2008-01-30T19:50:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kopf1988](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kopf1988](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kopf1988)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/various-ror-properties-question-for-activerecords-models/127608/1 "2008-01-30T19:50:12Z")
Okay, I’m working on a program to record registrations for an anime convention. Right now I have a model for Attendees, a model for Events, and a model for Payments. Okay, now I want to have one super event called “AnimeIowa2008” that every Attendee belongs to. My first problem is that I want to reuse this every year, so I want each user to have certain flags such as “2008\_sponsor” based on which year they are attending. But I don’t want to fill the database with flags like this, having to create more each year “2009\_sponsor”. So what’s the best way to save them then, relative to eac year? Would it be best to, perhaps, create a new model Venue and give a Venue object to each user with these flags or something? Next, the Users are going to -has\_and\_belongs\_to\_many Events- because there are events like “ArtShow” and “ArtistAlley”, and each event belongs\_to an event, which is the super event “AnimeIowa2008”. Is there a better way to do this also? Because AnimeIowa2008 doesn’t belong to any other events… so how do I do that? Would the best solution here be to create a new model, Venue, and make it has\_and\_belongs\_to\_many Attendees? Then how best would I store information such as the fact the Attendee is attending AnimeIowa2008, and is a sponsor this year but might not be next year. I also have to deal with Payments. Right now each one obviously belongs\_to one Attendee, but I might need to make them belong\_to “AnimeIowa2008” whatever type of object that is. That way I can seperate payments from this year and next year. I know this is complex… but any suggestions would be helpful 🙂 I’ll be up all night, lol.