I'm struggling with the following problem:
I have a class, call it 'School'.
An instance of School can have all sorts of assets, such as 'Books',
'Tables', 'Chairs', 'Teachers'.
Each of these asset types is modeled by it's own model and has a
corresponding table in the db. So, there is a table for 'Chair,
another for 'Teacher' and so on.
In summary, in the abstract, each school has_many assets and each
asset belongs_to a school.
I'd like to be able to do things like:
school = School.find(3)
school.assets << Chair.new(chair_params)
school.assets << Teacher.new(teacher_params)
school.assets.each{|a| puts a.name}
I tried to solve it by defining an abstract class:
class Asset << ActiveRecord::Base
self.abstract_class = true
end
and inheriting from it:
class Book << Assets
belongs_to :school
end
and
class School << ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :assets
end
That gets me part way there but I fear is fundamentally flawed. Most
of the time it results in complaints from raisl that the table
'Assets' doesn't exist, which is true...
Any suggestions on how to model the relationship I described would be
much appreciated!
Yoram
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