Re: [Rails] Newbie Model Question

On 1 August 2011 22:20, OES <lee.lesmith@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On the Profile I would like to store basic data ie Gender

Sex. Gender is a term about language being masculine/feminine/neutral.
Sex is male/female.

On 2 August 2011 07:31, Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Then I get to data like yearly income or marital status.
>
> I shall be interested on input from others on the best way to handle
> the marital status.

This is a good analysis of modelling martial status in DB's (with all
the complication it can cause):
http://qntm.org/gay

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.