similar to: single table inheritance: change object ''type'' after create?

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

I''d like to use observe_field to watch a field, and then when it changes send the entire form to the server. I had been using <%= observe_field ''entity_name_''+@account.id.to_s, :frequency => 0.5, :update => ''auto_complete_''+@account.id.to_s, :url => { :controller => ''committees'', :action=>

Hello, I''m having a heck of a time getting Single Table Inheritance to work in my app. I have the following models and have scaffolded out Person and Contact. person.rb class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :contacts end client.rb class Client < Person end contact.rb class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end phone.rb class Phone < Contact end In

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

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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

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,

Hi, I am trying to use the update_attributes on object with nested attributes and I am getting the following error: ProductPrice expected, got HashWithIndifferentAccess Here''s the situation (simplified): class Product < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :productPrice end class ProductPrice < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :product, :dependent => true

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

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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 really need your help guys... I spent 6 hours on this simple update command today that should work. It works fine in my other controller, but doesn''t work in this one for some reason. Here is my controller code for the list view, and then the update command: ====== def edit @user = User.find(params[:id]) end def update @user = User.find(params[:id]) if

Hi All, I have a C6 (latest patches) physical machine that I use for network and server monitoring, predominantly over SNMP. It is on VLAN80. My network management interfaces on the switches are on VLAN50 with routing between the VLANs. I recently changed the router to a CISCO ASA 5505 (reasonably recent IOS version, certainly post HeartBleed), with the management interface on a higher

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"

I have been working on this for weeks now and feel like I am at a dead-end. I am using Samba 3.0 (Head) and OpenLDAP (2.0) and smbldap-tools 0.7 and cannot join either a Linux machine or Windows 2000 machine to the domain. If any of you have some ideas they would be much appreciated. Highlights: - I have a root defined (UID and GID of 0). - Trying to join the domain will successfully add my

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''

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

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

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