Hi all,
I am wondering if this could be a good idea to support the Object#extend method
for an ActiveRecord class.
Let''s say I have a customer (with a corresponding customer table in the
DB). At one point, this customer becomes a "BillableCustomer" (with
data in another table for billing information).
Wouldn''t it be nice to write:
customer.extend(Billable)
customer.billingAddress = ...
customer.save
This way, you could implement Actor-Role patterns without the necessity to
create 2 classes representing the same logical object and an association between
the 2.
What do you think? Have you ever encountered that need? How did you deal with
it?
Thanks,
Eric.
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