Re: Way to Store Subscribers to Post-Threads

2007-12-21 Thread MrTufty
An alternative way which might scale better would be to have your posts table, your users table, and a posts_users table, joined using a hasAndBelongsToMany association. That way you don't get those comma- separated values, which are a complete bitch to deal with if you ever want to access them us

Way to Store Subscribers to Post-Threads

2007-12-21 Thread steve
I have a discussion board (kind of like mini discussion board), where users can subscribe to a particular Post ( so that when there is a reply to this post, they get mailed a notification ). I'm deciding whether or not to store it this way: posts table post_id users_subbed_t