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2006 Jan 14
11
nuby: do models have to inherit directly from ActiveRecord?
...w models -- book, cd, dvd -- for which I''d like to have an
abstract base superclass to hold some common stuff. That abstract class, I
was thinking, would inherit from ActiveRecord.
Didn''t work, though, and looking around, I found this:
<http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoMakeAbstractModel>
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoMakeAbstractModel. Which looks
pretty hackish to me. Is there any best way or recommendations on how to
achieve this kind of behavior? I know I could modify ActiveRecord directly,
but that seems brittle -- to run my app on later versions of rails, I&...
2006 Jan 17
10
Is STI the only way to do inheritance?
I''m currently coding a system which must store multiple contact methods for
a user (phone, email, postal address etc). I''m planning a fairly
straightforward inheritance hierachy for these, where each different method
inherits from something like a ContactMethod class.
The only mention of ActiveRecord support for inheritance I can find in the
Wiki and the Agile Web Dev book is