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randx
randx

Reputation: 129

How store work days of week in db

I have Shop entity

I need 7 checkboxes to set working days for this shop on frontend

I'm looking for best solution to store values in db. The easiest method is to keep 7 boolean fields like "monday?" "tuesday?" ... in db

Can you help me? thanks

PS: it should be searchable (ex. i want all shops working today)

Rails 3, Postgresql 8.4

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1034

Answers (2)

Denis de Bernardy
Denis de Bernardy

Reputation: 78523

Since there's little chance you'll have any kind of useful indexes on it, a bit(7) might be a good candidate depending the type of query you're doing. (And assuming AR supports it.)

Alternatively, boolean fields work - it'll just be a lot more verbose.

Upvotes: 0

mark
mark

Reputation: 10564

How are you going to use this data? If you need to find by working day(s) of week then do boolean columns as you say. If you don't, store as a string representation such as 'tttttff' (open monday to friday).

Upvotes: 2

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