title: Rails Active Record Associations between a registered user and unregistered one
body: <p>I have two <strong><em>models</em></strong> one is <code>Resident</code> and other is <code>User</code>.<code>Residents</code>  are the people that resides in hostel,they have enrolled manually.And <code>Users</code> that have enrolled using our Application,But all the Residents are manually registered then we seed our database with them,we have stored info about them as long before they have registered in our website.but if they registered we have all info about then just need email more,How could we associate then in Rails.<code>User</code> have permit to all the stuff in our Website.while the <code>Residents</code> can only see it,not edit!</p>