Rails: Best practice to store user settings?

Question

I\'m wondering what the best way is to store user settings? For a web 2.0 app I want users to be able to select certain settings. At the moment is it only when to receive em

Answer 1

If you use PostgreSQL, the best solution is to use https://github.com/diogob/activerecord-postgres-hstore/. It's a simple, fast and reliable way to store hashes in the database. Since it's not just a serialised text field, you can search on it also, and you don't need to create a new table, as in HasEasy.

def User
  serialize :preferences, ActiveRecord::Coders::Hstore
end

user = User.create preferences: { theme: "navy" }
user.preferences['theme']