On Sep 14, 11:31 am, moonshadow <[email protected]> wrote:
> How can I write a method within Person that will detect what gender > has been defined and return the proper object based on it? > > I'm thinking something like... > > def self.new > gender_class = self.gender == 'Female' ? 'Female' : 'Male' > eval(gender_class).new > end > > In that version, though, "self.gender" isn't recognized. I'm sure I'm > missing something really basic, but can someone point out what it is? > new is a class method, but gender is an instance method. Apart from that I'm not sure what you're trying to do? Do you know that Active Record can handle STI for you ? Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
