moonshadow wrote: > Hi all, > > ROR newbie coming from a PHP background here. > > I have a model that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base. I would like to > extend that into two further models, to separate functionality from > each other. Basically: > > class Person < ActiveRecord::Base > attr_accessible :gender > end > > class Male < Person > > end > > class Female < Person > > end > > How can I write a method within Person that will detect what gender > has been defined and return the proper object based on it?
You probably want to use single-table inheritance (STI) for this. Read the ActiveRecord docs on this point. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
