Rails - Jan 2006 - Subclassing only a specific portion?

Hi,
 I''m sure there is an easy way to do this, but I just can''t
see it:

 I have a large amount of rooms, that are for different purposes, and
for only one ''purpose'' do I want to create a specific
subclass. Ex:
banquet,wedding,admin. I want to have additional information about
admin rooms.

 Trying to use the ''type'' field just gives an error because I
don''t
have subclasses defined for them.

OR, if I just seperate this type of rooms into a different table, then
when I go to do a listing of rooms, it wouldn''t show up. Also,
thinking OO, a type of room is just a subset of room.

Am I thinking too hard for this?
--
- Nic

Well, just to update those who might have the same problem down the
road, I am just adding an extra column for that specific type,
''admin_id'', and just creating a default controller that brings
up all
rooms where admin_id is not null.

Not the greatest solution, and doesn''t fit with AR too well.

- Nic.

On 1/7/06, Nic Werner <nicwerner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I''m sure there is an easy way to do this, but I just
can''t see it:
>
>  I have a large amount of rooms, that are for different purposes, and
> for only one ''purpose'' do I want to create a specific
subclass. Ex:
> banquet,wedding,admin. I want to have additional information about
> admin rooms.
>
>  Trying to use the ''type'' field just gives an error
because I don''t
> have subclasses defined for them.
>
> OR, if I just seperate this type of rooms into a different table, then
> when I go to do a listing of rooms, it wouldn''t show up. Also,
> thinking OO, a type of room is just a subset of room.
>
> Am I thinking too hard for this?
> --
> - Nic
>

--
- Nic