Rails - Jan 2007 - Avoiding duplication in Has Many :through polymorphic associations

Hi everyone,

I have a group of classes that I associate to a Note class through a
has_many :through polymorphic association, which works great!  However,
I''ve
noticed that I have a good amount of duplicate functionality within these
classes for the Note interface.  I would like to move this functionality as
well as the actual has_many :through and join table associations into one
common file in order to adhere to the DRY principle.

I tried to make my classes inherit from a NoteInterface class that contained
the associations, but the association would use the parent class
(NoteInterface) as the type in the join table.  I already had to use
set_table() to get AR to use the name of the child class for the table.  Is
there a similar way to override the name of the type a polymorphic
association will use?

I also tried putting the associations in a module and use it as a mixin, but
when ruby parses the file, it doesn''t know what to do with them.

Has anyone else tried to do this?  Is this even be possible?

Thanks!
Chris

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