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Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:57:26 +0000

Sorry for the very late reply. I think in that case you would want to setup your routes like I detail in the "Bonus" section of my post, but without the initial `resources :people`. I haven't tested this so YMMV. Let me know if it works, or otherwise how you ended up solving your problem.

Comment on Testing model validations in rspec the short and sweet way by Arpit Chauhan

Arpit Chauhan — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:05:38 +0000

I'm taking a course on Rails on edX and struggling with writing these unit and integration tests!

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by railyboy

railyboy — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:36:10 +0000

Other than my question this is the most comprehensive post I have seen on this topic which ties STI together. Keep up the great work

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by railyboy

railyboy — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:35:09 +0000

Chris

How does one set this up if you don't want to use the base_url of kases. Say you are using STI to model people and you have Employees < People, Suppliers < People and Patients < People with People being the class inheriting from ActiveRecord::Base. So I don't want to be able to access People in the browser (url), but only want Employees or Suppliers or Patients. Is this possible?

Comment on Testing model validations in rspec the short and sweet way by Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:28:34 +0000

Very nice written post! I will try that gem 'cause I was doing TDD and got stuck with the same questioning.

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:58:57 +0000

Chris, great writeup. As with many others, you helped me solve a problem I was grappling with. As far as not being "the authoritative source on how to do it", all I can say is that that's the great thing about a Wiki: someone who writes (especially someone who writes well about a subject is the most authoritative source. Until someone who can improve on the existing answer comes along, that is.

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:09:09 +0000

PS: Thanks for the link back from your comment too. :)

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:08:01 +0000

Thanks for the tip re: Rails 3.1.3. I hadn't thought about adding it to the Rails Wiki. To be honest, I think it might be too verbose of a topic for that forum, and given my relative lack of experience with this I'm not sure my post should be the authoritative source on how to do it. But if it works for you, I'm glad I could help!

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by Andrew Dorney

Andrew Dorney — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:07:15 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that I think this was an excellent writeup of STI. I learned a lot from it. Consider writing up a page on the Rails wiki? Secondly, I ended up having a problem with preload_sti_models.rb on Rails 3.1.3. It ended up being this bug. https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/3364 The solution is listed in my comment there; you may want to incorporate that into your next revision of this post.

Comment on Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0 by Anon

Anon — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:13:38 +0000

This helped me out a lot thanks for the writeup