Single table inheritance , how to alias the id key name?

Rails
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I have a model class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
and 2 classes inheriting from it
class User < Person and class Contact < Person

obviously the id is person.id
but is there anyway to use user.id and contact.id or should I
always use person.id ???

thanks for your suggestions

erwin

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On 7 May 2008, at 14:27, Erwin wrote:

I have a model class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
and 2 classes inheriting from it
class User < Person and class Contact < Person

obviously the id is person.id
but is there anyway to use user.id and contact.id or should I
always use person.id ???

Your question doesn’t really make a huge amount of sent. If foo is an
instance of person, user, contact (or any other AR model for that
matter) the foo.id gives you the primary key

Fred