You might try to set `self.table_name = 'raw_data'` in the RawDatum class though I'm not sure what it's side-effects would be (if any).
Would the following design work for you? model ArchModel # Include common functionality here. end class RawDatum < ActiveRecord::Base include ArchModel end -- Greg Navis I help tech companies to scale Heroku-hosted Rails apps. Free, biweekly scalability newsletter for SaaS CEOs <http://www.gregnavis.com/newsletter/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAA6WWt-HBPT2rQi-H_JOws1y_vq5NFBnCi1HbCzzz434xXr4SQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

