RoR. Model with many attributes and their validation

Question

MongoDB

I'm talking about railroaders. Suppose we have a model:

class Event
  include Mongoid::Document

  field :action, type: Symbol
  field :actor_structure, type: Array
  # и так еще штук 40 полей, то символов, то массивов

end

Each field must correspond to a value from the list of possible ones. Each field has its own list. New values ​​are frequently added to the list. The first thing that comes to mind is has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many. But I'm afraid that this will greatly slow down the selection of the model and in general, perhaps even the anti-pattern.

You can leave them as attributes by creating models corresponding to them, and write a custom validator for each attribute. Although this is also, most likely, an anti-pattern.

Answer 1

I'm not a railsman, but I think your second option with validators is normal.

Answer 2

In the case of adding a new value, we correct the validators, sadness ...
has_many is an option. if you need to pull with dependencies, that is, includes
But in any case, real data will be useful to help.