Single Table Inheritance question

Hello,

I’m having a heck of a time getting Single Table Inheritance to work in
my app.
I have the following models and have scaffolded out Person and Contact.

person.rb
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :contacts
end

client.rb
class Client < Person
end

contact.rb
class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :person
end

phone.rb
class Phone < Contact
end

In script/console I?ve run:
c = Client.find :first
c.phones.create :contactdata => ?555-555-5555?

and get ?NoMethodError : undefined method ?phones? etc??

I tried moving the relationships in to the client and phone models but
then
there was an SQL error: ?Unknown column contacts.client_id? because the
contacts table has a person_id column not a client_id column. Any help
would be
greatly appreciated.

Hugh


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On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:54 AM, [email protected] wrote:

end
phone.rb
class Phone < Contact
end

In script/console I?ve run:
c = Client.find :first
c.phones.create :contactdata => ?555-555-5555?

and get ?NoMethodError : undefined method ?phones? etc??

You need to create a phone and then add it to the list of phones:

c = Client.find :first
p = Phone.create :contactdata => ‘555-555-5555’
c.phones << p


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On Dec 19, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Duane J. wrote:

person.rb
belongs_to :person
and get ?NoMethodError : undefined method ?phones? etc??

You need to create a phone and then add it to the list of phones:

c = Client.find :first
p = Phone.create :contactdata => ‘555-555-5555’
c.phones << p

Hrm. And it also appears that your relationship is actually
has_many :contacts, so you’d do this instead:

c = Client.find :first
p = Phone.create :contactdata => ‘555-555-5555’
c.contacts << p

Duane J.
(canadaduane)
http://blog.inquirylabs.com/