[OLD] Class-table inheritance in ActiveRecord
January 19th, 2008
This article is nothing new. I first published it on November 7th, 2006. The site it went up on is no longer running, but it seemed a shame to let it disappear. I imagine the ActiveRecord codebase has moved on significantly enough that the patch would be very difficult to apply now.
There were quite a few comments to the original post (not preserved here) expressing interest in CTI. Unfortunately, there were none from any of the ActiveRecord team, but then, DHH doesn't even like foreign keys, so expecting interest in CTI would be downright naive.
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