Summary

Users want to be able to attach links to social media on their profile page.

Proposals

Data Model/DB Design

✅ Proposal 1: Add New Link Fields for Profiles

The currently existing profiles table could have new fields for each of the links we want to support:

def change
  add_column :profiles, :twitter_link, :string 
  add_column :profiles, :linked_in_link, :string
  add_column :profiles, :github_link, :string
  # etc.
end

Pros

Simple and easy to implement
Easy to clearly define exactly what links we will support

Cons

Not particularly extensible. A new migration needs to be written for each new link type

Proposal 2: Add New `Link` model

First off: the name of this should probably be less generic. SocialMediaLinks, ProfileLinks, SocialLinks, — something like this is probably a better name. I’m not immediately sure what it should be though.

But the idea would be to create a new table that houses these things.

def change
  create_table :links do |t|
    t.references :profile, null: false, foreign_key: true
    t.string :url, null: false

    t.timestamps
  end
end