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2006 Jul 02
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Generic SingleTable inheritance
Hi all,
I would like to discuss a design idea I have in mind with you, in order
to get critical feedback.
ActiveRecord supports single table inheritance(STI) "per se", BUT you
must add all possible instance variables(properties) of all subclasses
to the "base table"(as columns). I would like to circumvent this
restriction.
Say we have a
class AbstractGenericThing <