From: jm <jeffm@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T14:43:10+09:00
Subject: rails columns name conflict

A question for the rails users out there.

Rails error:

....This error is raised because the column 'type' is reserved for 
storing the class in case of inheritance. Please rename this column if 
you didn't intend it to be used for storing the inheritance class or 
overwrite Record.inheritance_column to use another column for that 
information.

I fixed this by adding

   def self.inheritance_column
     "rails_type"
   end

to the model class which may not be the correct fix, but at least it 
let me work on it a bit more. Anyway, the row name "type" 
clashes/conflicts with the ruby method of the same name. Is there a way 
to change the row mappings so that db column type maps to/from 
Record.rectype or something similar?

And, before you say change the row name I didn't pick the database 
schema and it's used by another program which has this compiled in.

thanks,
J.