Find :all in subclass within STI finds parents instead

Rails
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All,

I am relative new to Rails and struggle with following STI issue:

A parent class “Reading” has many subclasses “ElectricityReading”,
“GasReading”, …

I wrote a method in the Reading class to update calculated columns in
each record, the logic goes like this:

  1. Find first record

first = find(:first, :conditions => [“unit_id = ?”, unit_id], :order
=> “date asc” )

get values of some columns and store in local variables

  1. Find all records, perform the calculations and store in calculated
    fields

find(:all, :conditions => [“unit_id = ?”, unit_id], :order => “date
asc” ).each do |r|

get column values of r, calculate and save

  1. Controller calls the method after each create or entry
    ElectricityReading.calculate(unit_id)

The problem:

Instead of

SELECT * FROM “readings” WHERE (unit_id = 1) AND ( (“readings”.“type”
= ‘ElectricityReading’ ) Limit 1
SELECT * FROM “readings” WHERE (unit_id = 1) AND ( (“readings”.“type”
= ‘ElectricityReading’ )

I get

SELECT * FROM “readings” WHERE (“readings”.“id” = ‘10’) LIMIT 1
SELECT * FROM “readings” WHERE (“readings”.“id” = ‘10’)

So the calculations are performed on all Reading objects rather than
only the ElectricityReading object.

The funny thing is that it seems to work as expected in the console,
but fails as above using the built in server.

Is this a bug in STI? Would it be solved by using a different type of
inheritance?

2

Check the lines in the log above SELECT * FROM “readings” WHERE
(“readings”.“id” = ‘10’) LIMIT 1

Rails tends to break up long SQL statements into smaller ones. More
information about your code snippet is required to make any guesses.
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