How to handle similar items in rails MVC?
- by mocker
I'm working on building a pretty simple site mainly as an exercise in
learning more about rails. You can see my rough progress at
statific.com. It's working pretty much as I wanted it for
keeping track of server information, but now I'd like to expand it to
other things, next on the list being firewalls.
I can pretty easily duplicate all the models, views, etc.. that I have
for my servers. The problem I see with that is that it isn't very DRY
since most of the code would look the same, the only difference would
be the attributes I have setup for firewalls would be different than
for servers.
I know in plain ruby this is pretty simple, you can have a 'Product'
w/ common attributes ('manufacturer', 'model') and then have children
with more specific attributes. Does the same type of concept exist
for rails, or am I just over thinking this?
