Rails core - May 2014 - Enums and STI

Hi all,

I was thinking that someone might want the type column used with 
Single-Table Inheritance to be an Enum rather than a string.  Is the 
counter argument that STI is responsible for the type column so it doesn't 
matter?

If the inheritance_column did support enum, would the resulting code be 
repeating itself too much?  

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  enum type: [:student, :teacher]
end

class Teacher < User
end
class Student < User
end

If there's interest in this feature I would be happy to work on adding it.

Zac

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