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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
