From: Peter Ertl <pertl@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T02:51:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to model Hibernate multi-table inheritance with ActiveRecord?

Read about polymorphic associations...

here's an example
http://www.fromdelhi.com/2006/06/15/polymorphic-association-in-rails/

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Datum: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:11:05 +0900
Von: Marcus Andersson <m-lists@bristav.se>
An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Betreff: Re: How to model Hibernate multi-table inheritance with ActiveRecord?

> Alex Young skrev:
> > I'd have SomeAsset and AnotherAsset instances each hold a delegate 
> > Asset object that they proxy any calls they can't answer themselves 
> > to.  I've played around a little with trying to implement a full class 
> > table inheritance scheme for AR on that basis, but never really had 
> > enough need for it myself to polish it up.
> >
> If I do like that I have to search in several different tables when I 
> want to search for assets when I don't care about the type? Or did I 
> misunderstand?
> 
> /Marcus
>