Question

I have a website which allows only people registration. Now I would like to add organizations registration.

The problem is that people and organizations have some identical fields and some different fields (e.g. organizations haven’t got a surname or date of birth but may have other fields that people don’t need).

Users behavior is the same. Only fields are different.

What is the best way to implement organizations registration?
Should I create a polymorphic association or there is a simpler/better solution?

Answer 1

simply create first step where people can choose usual or organization’s registration, and render right form then

for validations use :if => lambda { self.organization? } ( organization boolean field)