Polymorphic has_many from ActiveRecord::Base?

Rails
1

I have a polymorphic thingy called fields and I need to on each and
every model, so I’d like to do the has_many from the base class, like
this…

ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do
has_many :fields, :as => :model, :dependent => true
end

It fails with this no method error (class_of_active_record_descendant)

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_record/
base.rb:1369:in class_of_active_record_descendant':NoMethodError: undefined methodabstract_class?’ for Object:Class

Is there a better way to do this???

2

Instead of doing a class_eval, have you tried this:

ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :fields, :as => :model, :dependent => true
end

If you put this in a some_name.rb file in your models, the AR::Base
class will be extended with the functionality, which will then be
inherited by your models. It might work…

Brent