我已经遇到这个数据的问题几次，并尝试了一些不同的策略。我想一个我的忠实粉丝，是所提到的cicloon的STI的方法。请确保您有一个键入列在你的项目表。

I've come across this data problem several times and have tried a few different strategies. I think the one I'm a biggest fan of, is the STI approach as mentioned by cicloon. Make sure you have a type column on your entry table.

class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base
  # this is your generic association that would return all types of entries
  has_many :entries

  # you can also add other associations specific to each type.
  # through STI, rails is aware that a media_entry is in fact an Entry
  # and will do most of the work for you.  These will automatically do what cicloon.
  # did manually via his methods.
  has_many :articles
  has_many :quotes
  has_many :media
end

class Entry < ActiveRecord::Base
end

class Article < Entry 
  has_one :article_data
end

class Quote < Entry
  has_one :quote_data
end

class Media < Entry
  has_one :media_data
end

class ArticleData < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :article # smart enough to know this is actually an entry
end

class QuoteData < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :quote
end

class MediaData < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :media
end

我喜欢这种方法的东西，是可以保持的通用输入数据的入门车型。摘要任何子条目类型的数据到自己的数据表，并有HAS_ONE协会给他们，从而对您的输入表中增加额外的列。它也工作得很好，当你做你的观点的：

The thing I like about this approach, is you can keep the generic Entry data in the entry model. Abstract out any of the sub-entry type data into their own data tables, and have a has_one association to them, resulting in no extra columns on your entries table. It also works very well for when you're doing your views:

app/views/articles/_article.html.erb
app/views/quotes/_quote.html.erb
app/views/media/_media.html.erb # may be medium here....

和从你的观点，你可以做两种：

and from your views you can do either:

<%= render @blog.entries %> <!-- this will automatically render the appropriate view partial -->

或有更多的控制：

or have more control:

<%= render @blog.quotes %>
<%= render @blog.articles %>

您可以找到的产生形成了一个pretty的通用方式，以及，我通常会呈现一个输入/ _form.html.erb 部分通用输入字段。在那个部分，我也有一个

You can find a pretty generic way of generating forms as well, I usually render the generic entry fields in an entries/_form.html.erb partial. Inside that partial, I also have a

<%= form_for @entry do |f| %>
  <%= render :partial => "#{f.object.class.name.tableize}/#{f.object.class.name.underscore}_form", :object => f %>
<% end %> 

类型呈现为子表单数据。反过来子窗体可以使用 accepts_nested_attributes_for + fields_for 打通正确传递的数据。

type render for the sub form data. The sub forms in turn can use accepts_nested_attributes_for + fields_for to get the data passed through properly.

唯一的痛苦，我有这样的做法，是如何处理的控制器和路线佣工。由于每一项都是它自己的类型的，你要么必须创建自定义的控制器/为每个类型的路由（你可能想要这个...），或使通用的。如果你把通用的方法，有两件事要记住。

The only pain I have with this approach, is how to handle the controllers and route helpers. Since each entry is of its own type, you'll either have to create custom controllers / routes for each type (you may want this...) or make a generic one. If you take the generic approach, two things to remember.

1）你不能设置一个：通过更新类型字段属性，您的控制器将有实例相应的 Article.new 来保存它（您可以使用此工厂）。

1) You can't set a :type field through update attributes, your controller will have to instantiate the appropriate Article.new to save it (you may use a factory here).

2）你必须使用成为（）办法（ @ article.becomes（输入） ），以与条目作为条目，而不是一个子类的工作。

2) You'll have to use the becomes() method (@article.becomes(Entry)) to work with the entry as an Entry and not a subclass.

希望这有助于。

警告，我已经实际使用媒体作为过去一个型号名称。在我的情况下，它导致了一个名为然而，在轨媒体2.3.x导轨中3台，它希望我的模型被命名为中型和我同桌的媒体。您可能需要添加自定义的拐点在这个命名，虽然我不知道。