From: Bob Showalter <showaltb@...>
Date: 2007-06-29T07:08:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord (not necessarily rails)

On 6/27/07, shawn bright <nephish@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> i have been using ActiveRecord in a couple of GUI applications recently and
> it is working really well.
> i was wondering though, if it is possible to have a class defined that i can
> change one of the has_many or belongs_to declarations
> dynamically. In a model, i declare one like this.
>
> class Person ActiveRecord::Base
>     has_many :records
>
> now, is the has_many some sort of attribute, class variable, etc...

has_many is a class method.

> i mean if in my program, i wanted to change the
> has_many :records   to something like
> has_many :hats
>
> how could i do that?

This sounds like an "XY problem"
(http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341). What are you
trying to accomplish?