On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:21 -0400, Rob Biedenharn wrote: > On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Craig White wrote: > > > > > I have a problem with a table that has a field named 'type' > > > > When I try to use active record in a console, I get this error... > > > > ActiveRecord::SubclassNotFound: The single-table inheritance mechanism > > failed to locate the subclass: '10'. 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 Debtortrans.inheritance_column to > > use > > another column for that information. > > > > Since I can't rename the column because the software creating it needs > > this, is it possible to alias the name somehow within rails, perhaps > > in > > the model? > > > > Craig > > > The default value for the inheritance_column is "type" so you just > need to change that to something else and then you should be able to > use 'type' normally for your legacy data. > > class Debtortrans > inheritance_column :not_used > end > > (Assuming that there isn't a column named "not_used" in that table, of > course. ;-) ---- OK, that should work - thanks
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