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2006 Feb 27
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Models and Inheritance
I have a table of companies and a join table forming the relationship
between a list of possible services they can provide.
Working from a basic understanding of OOP I assumed that there should be
a series of Serviceprovider child objects of the company class.
Company < ActiveRecord::Base
has_belongs_to_many :services
end
Serviceprovidertype1 < Company
Serviceprovidertype2 < Company
These child classes have corresponding child controllers
Serviceprovidertype1Controller < CompanyController
in the parent I have a method
protected
list_by_service(service)
Company.find_by_sql(.. + service...