CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-railsactiverecordsingle-table-inheritance
stellard
stellard

Reputation: 5314

STI Inheiritance in Rails. Issues with find

I am having an issue with searching for records in my STI table due to my inheritance structure

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

class LegacyUser < User

class AuthUser < User

class SuperUser < AuthUser

class FieldUser < AuthUser

class ClientAdmin < AuthUser

The problem is that find does not work for the AuthUser Model. The query is looking for type "AuthUser" and does not include the other three possibilities.

Edit: While playing around with this it started to work but only for ClientAdmin and FieldUser so it seems this functionality should be build in. but now it has gone back to the original issue

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1206

Answers (3)

Brandon Bloom
Brandon Bloom

Reputation: 1342

I just ran into this same issue and found a solution here.

In short, the issue is that there is no way for your intermediate abstract class to know what its subclasses are before they are loaded. To work around this, you can manually load all the subclasses at the bottom of that classes' file.

So at the bottom of auth_user.rb:

require_dependency 'super_user'
require_dependency 'field_user'
require_dependency 'client_user'

Upvotes: 3

Jimmy Stenke
Jimmy Stenke

Reputation: 11220

Is the AuthUser model going to be used by itself?

If it is only a class for shared methods between the inherited classes you could try to set it as an abstract class. That way ActiveRecord might pass right through it.

In the declaration of AuthUser, just add self.abstract_class = true like this:

class AuthUser < User
     self.abstract_class = true
end

I do not know if that works in this scenario, but it could be worth a try.

Upvotes: 2

DanSingerman
DanSingerman

Reputation: 36502

Due to the way STI works in Rails (it stores the model name in a database column called 'type') I don't see how it can support the hierarchy you describe above - I think you are limited to a single level hierarchy.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions