Rails - Apr 2007 - defining a global scope on a model

Help!

I''ve got a table sharing situation where Single Table Inheritance is
not viable.

I would like to be able to define a "scope" that is applied whenever I
am using that model to allow me to construct my relationships.

so far I have done this:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  scoped_methods << {
    :find => {:conditions => [''is_special = ?'', false] }
  }
end

class SomeSpecialModel < SomeModel
  set_table_name ''some_models''
  scoped_methods << {
    :find => {:conditions => [''is_special = ?'', true] }
  }
end


This actually satisfies my requirements... but I''m not happy about
using the undocumented array of "scoped_methods" for my purpose.....

Is there a more Railsy way of achieving this goal?


Any ideas welcome...except STI :)

farms.


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