Defining a global scope on a model

Rails
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Help!

I’ve got a table sharing situation where Single Table Inheritance is
not viable.

I would like to be able to define a “scope” that is applied whenever I
am using that model to allow me to construct my relationships.

so far I have done this:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
scoped_methods << {
:find => {:conditions => [‘is_special = ?’, false] }
}
end

class SomeSpecialModel < SomeModel
set_table_name ‘some_models’
scoped_methods << {
:find => {:conditions => [‘is_special = ?’, true] }
}
end

This actually satisfies my requirements… but I’m not happy about
using the undocumented array of “scoped_methods” for my purpose…

Is there a more Railsy way of achieving this goal?

Any ideas welcome…except STI :slight_smile:

farms.