Rails Best Practice — Persisting Addresses in PostgreSQL

Application planning is a crucial and often overlooked step in building successful web applications. The Rails framework makes it so easy to create and bootstrap an application that it’s tempting for developers to skip planning and jump right to development. However, generating application code before properly planning the domain can lead to sloppy or even malformed applications. Consider, for instance, the best method to handle the “address” field in an application.