Let’s say you want to create a Digg.com-like site. Should the votes be its own separate model, or should the votes be a field in the table for the model of the object that is voted on?
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Let’s say you want to create a Digg.com-like site. Should the votes be its own separate model, or should the votes be a field in the table for the model of the object that is voted on?
It depends on how much information you want to store. If you just have a reference to something and a total score, then you don’t need a model. If you have want to store who voted, how many up/down votes were received, timestamp when votes were received, and be able to rollback votes from unruly sources, then you’ll need to keep each of those votes as their own model. Personally, I’d make each vote its own record, if I were designing such a system.