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I have seen two different approaches in saving user preferences.
APPROACH 1: Serializing them and saving in one of the column of USERS table
APPROACH 2: Creating a separate table PREFERENCES and make a has_many association from USERS to PREFERENCES.
Which one of the above two approaches would you prefer and what are the pros and cons of each over other?
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Usually to store user preferences, it is best to use localStorage.
To specify settings that can be customized for a particular user, configure user preferences. A set of DefaultPreferences is assigned to each user of the Cúram application. A user preferences editor is available in the web client. This editor allows each user to update values for the preferences.
It's usually a good idea to favor normalization. The second solution keeps your models cleaner, allows for easy extensibility if new preferences are added, and keeps your tables uncluttered.
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