I’m trying like crazy to wrap a rails app around a legacy oracle
database. This app will not be mutating any data in the database,
only viewing it. Here’s a 30 second description of the “schema”.
There is a master table for a health care claim (I will call it
claim_master), and this table has a unique id for the claim, as well
as a type and a status. Type can be 1 of about a dozen possible
values. Status is either paid, suspended or denied. Then we have
several other tables, split up by claim type and status, that hold
extra claims data. So claims of type A with a paid status would be
in, say, claims_a_paid and a claim with type B with a deny status
would be in claim_b_deny.
I want to set up my models with associations, but the association must
depend on values in the database. Take this:
class Claim < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :extra
set_table_name “claim_master”
end
class ClaimExtra < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :claim
set_table_name “???”
end
The table name that belongs where the ??? is depends on data in the
claim. Is there any rails magic I can use that can let this table
name be dynamically constructed out of the results from the belongs_to
directive being executed?