similar to: possible to create polymorphic relationship with STI models?

I am working on a small model mixin called attachment_kung to make attachment_fu polymorphic, so you no longer need a different table and Model class for every associated attachment (Productimage, Ad_doc, etc). All you really need is one model and table to handel all your attachments - in some cases, anyway. I have the code working, but have run into one small hitch that I can''t seem to

Hi to everyone, I have the following models: class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base has_attachment :content_type => [:image, ''application/pdf''], :max_size => 3.megabytes, :path_prefix => ''../private/attachments'', :storage => :file_system, :processor => :rmagick,

I''ve been using polymorphic joins from edge rails based on about 5 lines of advice Rick Olson gave me over IRC. There''s some sparse documentation popping up but it seems to cover a somewhat different case. Anyway - I pretty much got it to work - save for one detail. Here''s what I have: class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :attachable, :polymorphic =>

Hopefully the subject line didn''t scare you. That said... I have a simple polymorphic relationship (is that possible?): class Part has_many :attachments, :as => :attachable end class Attachment belongs_to :attachable, :polymorphic => true end Calling Part.find(:first).attachments yields this SQL error: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql::Error: Unknown column

Hi people, I''m looking into polymorphic associations as a way to cleanup some messy parts of my code. I think they will allow me to do exectly what I need, but since there''s little to none written on this subject, I''d be delighted if someone could shed some light on this. Especially what the different options and needed table structures need to be. Thanks, -

Hello all This is my first post so excuse the basic question. (and any repeats I just got an email saying this post was too big so I have re-submitted a smaller version) I was following the thread on http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-May/038988.html regarding the STI on HABTM for RoR. I have a very similar problem and was hoping for some help. I have the

I am having trouble with an many to many polymorphic association with STI involved. The problem is described clearly in the following StackOverflow question, so I will leave this thread short: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6582074/activerecord-has-many-through-polymorphic-associations-with-sti I am posting here hoping to get advice/direction/a solution for this, as I''ve so far been

Hi, lets say I have a a table, "Linkings" that I am using for polymorphic associations. One of the associations is to the "person" table, and there are several other associations. "Person" has 2 types, "slacker" and "suckup". It is modelled as such: class Linking < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person belongs_to :linkable, :polymorphic

I have two models, Article and Post, that has many Comments. However, both Article and Post are inherited from a BaseContent class like so: class Article < BaseContent has_many :comments, :as => :commentable end class Post < BaseContent has_many :comments, :as => :commentable end and here''s my Comment model: class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to

1. A category has parent categories. 2. A product is in many categories and a category has many products. 3. Products and category both have images in the same image table. ie. a product and / or category could have multiple images.<=== my question is related to this So among other things I presume I have to do the following: class Category < ActiveRecord:Base #...

Josh Susser tells in his blog that the opposite direction of polymorphic will get into trouble together with has_many through. This is the url: http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/articles/2006/04/03/polymorphic-through I do that according to Josh Susser''s procedure: class Tagging < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :tag belongs_to :taggable, :polymorphic => true belongs_to

If I define an association (in my case a polymorphic one) in an STI parent class, and try to eagerly load it in a subclass, I get the following error: ActiveRecord::ConfigurationError: Association name ''myassoc'' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it? If I redefine the same association again in the STI subclass, it works. Is this a bug or what? -- You received this message

The setup: class Location::Base < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name :locations ... end class Location::Address < Location::Base ... end class Location::Airport < Location::Base ... end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :location, :polymorphic => true, :class_name => "Location::Base" ... end I want a unidirectional belongs_to relationship. That

I have a MasterEvent model. It has attributes that is required by another model Event. The user selects the MasterEvent model and I create the Event model by merging the attributes of the selected MasterEvent with the attributes that were presented for the Event model in the form. I have association declarations in the MasterEvent and Event models. If I use STI does the subclasses inherit the

Hey all, Could use a few eyes on a couple of very simple patches at https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/6262 if any has some time. The issue (from the ticket description): If you define a polymorphic belongs_to association and it has conditions on it, those conditions cause a NameError when you try to access the target object, of the style saying "hey, there''s no

Hi, seem to keep running into a wall here. I can''t find any resources on site navigation that can deal with any model being in the nav, allow nesting, and can dynamically update. So I thought about it for a while, and decided on a MenuItems class, which contained the position of the child in relation to it''s siblings, where the parent and the child were polymorphic. Then a given

Hello All, I have a little challenge and I am not sure if this is even possible I am working on a dating/event site and few functionalities are similar that I want to centralize them. We have users which can have - favorite users - interest list - blocked users All these relations are like; User <-> Relation <-> User I was thinking I could have a class called Relation (with a

I have a couple models that inherit from a base class that then inherits from AR. When they are used in a polymorphic relationship the "type" is always the base class. Just curious if anyone has a reason why it doesn''t use the *actual* class rather then the base_class. I have patched AR to use the actual class if !base_class.table_exists? but it adds another query each time

Consider the following: class Event belongs_to :event_object, :polymorphic => true end class Asset < ActiveRecord::Base end class EventedAsset < Asset has_one :event, :as => :event_object end EventedAsset.find(:first).event generates the following SQL: SELECT * FROM `events` WHERE (events.event_object_id = 1 AND events.event_object_type = ''Asset'') LIMIT 1

I''m stumped on how to get past this. It''s Rails 2.0.2. I have a class, Show. Using STI, I''m using that as a base class, and have DayShow and NightShow that inherit from it. ### class Show < ActiveRecord::Base end class DayShow < Show end ### In my shows/edit.html.erb, I have: <% form_for(@show) do |f| %> However, when I use it with a @show that has