similar to: Single Table Inheritance and controllers

I''m getting some weirdness trying to use a select widget to choose the type from a collection of three objects sharing a database table via single-table inheritance (STI). I''d be grateful for any advice on whether it''s a bug or a feature, if a feature why and how I can more easily do what I''m trying to do. So I have the usual STI setup, with a

I''m wondering what the accepted method for doing unit tests on STI models is. I tried to create a fixture for the class but Rails tries to load that data into the non-existent child table. I could create a fixture named for the real, parent table, but then it would be very difficult to test for the individual functionality and integrity of each sub-class. I saw this page

in a single table inheritance model, rails will automatically set the scope for acts_as_list to the ''type'' field as well as any other scope conditions we provide. Is there a way to disable this? i want to use STI but I want acts_as_list to disregard the class type when getting/setting positions. thanks alan

I have a question about where to decorate my classes with acts_as_list. I am using single table inheritance and i have a base class LookupItem. There are 5 child classes: Priority, Probability, RiskRating, Status, and RiskManagementItem. Each of these 5 items needs to act as a list. Should I use acts_as_list on each child class or should it go on the parent LookupItem class? I''m

Is there any way to wire the .rhtml files in app/views into Rails'' Single Table Inheritance mechanism? So given: class Bar < Foo The STI mechanism is generating the objects correctly when it hydrates them out of the db, but when it goes to rendering pages, it pulls everything from app/views/foo and doesn''t touch app/views/bar. I can of course hook in manual type-checking

I''ve got some problems right now using the new model for relationships in fixtures (by label, not by id) and STI. What I''ve got, is a couple of models: Attachment --> FileDownload Version Version has_one file_download with file_download_id on the versions table In my fixtures, I have two FileDownloads in my attachments.yml like so: hemingway_alpha_zip: size: 100

So is the official stance as per edge rails that multiple class definitions must go into separate files? I was trying to use STI with acts_as_attachment, to have all my attachment classes go into a single file, for example: attachment.rb class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base end class UserPicture < Attachment belongs_to :user, :foreign_key => ''owner_id''

Hi, As per another member''s suggestion, I''m trying to user STI. So I have this table: CREATE TABLE `settings` ( `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `type` char(40) NOT NULL default ''General'', `name` char(40) NOT NULL default '''', `value` char(128) NOT NULL default '''', `updated_on` datetime default NULL,

I''ve set up a couple of STI models like such that we get something like this... class A < AR:Base class B < A acts_as_taggable class C < A acst_as_taggable (using the acts_as_taggable plugin) I can tag things just fine this way, the problem I encounter is that the taggings are listed with the base class ("A") and not the appropriate subclass ("B"

All, I''ve a question concerning STI in Rails. Let''s say I''ve a Person class and two classes that inherit from Person: User and Customer. In the DB I''ve the people table to store both instances of User and Customer. Now, let''s say I also have Address class, which references a Customer, and each customer has many addresses. How should I name the

Hallo, I am having a very strange Problem with STI in my application. setup: - two tables one called "wikis" on called "categories" with a hbtm relationship. - the wikis table is the sti one with a model PageWiki being extended from Wiki (and the correspondig type column) Following happens: - server restart - get :wikis, :show_pages - in show_pages the first line says

Hi all, Quick question for STI. With the following setup: class Company < AR::Base; end class Firm < Company; end Why does Firm.find(:all) return all Companies, not just those that have type==''Firm''? -- Alex

Hey folks, I''m trying to keep track of couple of different kinds of "entities" in my rails app: "people", "organizations", and "committees". I have a single Entities table in the database, and I''m using Single Table Inheritance to keep the different subclasses in the same table, with a field "type". My problem comes when

I''m having a class called Person, with subclasses as goalkeeper, forward, defender. Now a person can be a forward as well as a defender or a goalkeeper. I want to use single table inheritance like : class Goalkeepr < Person end And not have multiple boolean columns like in my people table like is is_goalkpeer, is_forward, is_defender. How do I go about it ? Thanks, Pratik -- rm

Please tell me if this train of thinking makes sense, I need help on solving this association model problem: I am doing an app that creates and manages stereoscopic images, one stereoscopic image is formed by two photos, say photo1 and photo2 The user uploads photo1 and then photo2 and gets a preview if he likes the preview he/she authorizes it and gets a final stereoscopic image All this

Hello, is it possible to setup a model/table schema like this: Groupable --> Membership <-- Group ^ ^ | | User UserGroup I tried the following but failed: Groupable (table with ''type'' column) has_many :memberships, :as => :groupable has_many :groups, :through => :memberships

Some how I''m getting NameError: uninitialized constant when accessing a child models that inherits form the parent model. However, if I access the parent model first, then the child model is resolved. What am I doing wrong? My steps are below... Thanks, Francis. > ./script/generate model Blah type:string class CreateBlahs < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table

Hello, I have been experimenting with Single Table Inheritance as described in the More Active Record chapter in Agile Development with Rails. I have started with an object model with three classes x, y and z (for brevity), where y < x and z < y. (I will want to extend this model further to subclass y with other classes.) I have created a table called x (plural) in the database with

Running into an interesting problem that at first glance appears to be a bug in the AR association code. However, it''s explicitly coded this way so I''m not so sure. I have some code like this: class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :addressable, :polymorphic => true end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :addresses, :as => :addressable,

Hello, we have a problem in a CMS project that we believe is basic for RoR developement and could concern others as well - or have already: RoR implements the ''Single Table Inheritance'' (STI) Pattern: http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/singleTableInheritance.html .. through its ''ActiveRecord'' ORM. The Fowler example mentions a ''type''