Model for UnderReview/Published User Content

Question

I am building a user-generated website, but want to be able to moderate them. I also need the posts have a static id, because I want to use the facebook social plugins. I was initially thinking about having two distinct tables 'review' and 'published' and move the posts from one table to another. However, I didnt know how make them retain their id, as the incremental id of the table is used?

I could also use one table and have a published attribute, but I feel this solution is not really performant, but the only way to preserve the id?

btw, i am using rails

Answer 1

Why not have a state column in the posts table to show if a post is reviewed or published? If you want to get fancy you can use something like the aasm gem.