Subclassing only a specific portion?

Rails
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Hi,
I’m sure there is an easy way to do this, but I just can’t see it:

I have a large amount of rooms, that are for different purposes, and
for only one ‘purpose’ do I want to create a specific subclass. Ex:
banquet,wedding,admin. I want to have additional information about
admin rooms.

Trying to use the ‘type’ field just gives an error because I don’t
have subclasses defined for them.

OR, if I just seperate this type of rooms into a different table, then
when I go to do a listing of rooms, it wouldn’t show up. Also,
thinking OO, a type of room is just a subset of room.

Am I thinking too hard for this?

  • Nic
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Well, just to update those who might have the same problem down the
road, I am just adding an extra column for that specific type,
‘admin_id’, and just creating a default controller that brings up all
rooms where admin_id is not null.

Not the greatest solution, and doesn’t fit with AR too well.

  • Nic.

On 1/7/06, Nic W. [email protected] wrote:

OR, if I just seperate this type of rooms into a different table, then
when I go to do a listing of rooms, it wouldn’t show up. Also,
thinking OO, a type of room is just a subset of room.

Am I thinking too hard for this?

  • Nic

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  • Nic