Of course, if this was implemented then polymorphic association `_type` 
fields should also support Enums for consistency.  I think this would be 
advantageous for the same reasons.

On Thursday, 8 May 2014 16:00:02 UTC+1, Zac Moody wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking that someone might want the type column used with 
> Single-Table Inheritance to be an Enum rather than a string.  Is the 
> counter argument that STI is responsible for the type column so it doesn't 
> matter?
>
> If the inheritance_column did support enum, would the resulting code be 
> repeating itself too much?  
>
> class User < ActiveRecord::Base
>   enum type: [:student, :teacher]
> end
>
> class Teacher < User
> end
> class Student < User
> end
>
> If there's interest in this feature I would be happy to work on adding it.
>
> Zac
>

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