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POClass Table Inheritance in Rails 3
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copied!<p>I'm currently working on a Rails 3 application that looks like it might need to use Class Table Inheritance for a couple of models.</p> <p>A simplified example of what's going on is this.</p> <p>I have a class called Person with general attributes like name, email, password which are common to all types of people in the application and used for authentication.</p> <p>There are two subclasses to Person (or two types of people...), Driver and Passenger. Both of these subclasses share the generic attributes of Person but then have specific additional attributes which are unique to themselves. (for example a Driver can have many Vehicles and Licenses but a Passenger would not)</p> <p>How would I implement CTI for this kind of situation? I've been looking at an example provided here:</p> <p><a href="http://rhnh.net/2010/08/15/class-table-inheritance-and-eager-loading" rel="noreferrer">http://rhnh.net/2010/08/15/class-table-inheritance-and-eager-loading</a></p> <p>But it doesn't speculate on how to access the common attributes of a Person from a Driver or Passenger object and I'm a bit confused by that.</p> <p>In particular, what I'd like to know is:</p> <p>If I'm updating the attributes of a Driver, how can I easily access and update the relevant attributes on the parent people table? Do I have to hook into an after_save callback and separate out which attribute update goes where? Or is there a better way to approach this?</p>

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