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    <p>The app I'm developing has 3 main models and many single table inheritance models:</p> <ol> <li>Question</li> <li>User <ol> <li>Professional</li> <li>Representant</li> </ol></li> <li>Taxonomy <ol> <li>Category</li> <li>Topic</li> <li>Profession</li> <li>Locality</li> <li>Region</li> <li>Country</li> </ol></li> </ol> <p>There are multiple kinds of users (<code>User</code>, <code>Professional &lt; User</code>, <code>Representant &lt; User</code>) which all inherit from the User class with single table inheritance.</p> <p>There are multiple kinds of taxonomies (<code>Category &lt; Taxonomy</code>, <code>Topic &lt; Taxonomy</code>, <code>Profession &lt; Taxonomy</code>, <code>Locality &lt; Taxonomy</code>, <code>Region &lt; Taxonomy</code>, <code>Country &lt; Taxonomy</code>) which all inherit from the Taxonomy class with single table inheritance.</p> <p>Questions, as well as professionals are also under taxonomies via many to many relationships (they can have many topics, many professions, many categories, etc...)</p> <p>Now, I'm looking for a way to establish that many to many relationship between those polymorphic objects. I've tried the <code>has_many :through</code> solution and created a Classification class.</p> <p>Migration file:</p> <pre><code>class CreateClassifications &lt; ActiveRecord::Migration def change create_table :classifications, :id =&gt; false do |t| t.references :classifiable, :null =&gt; false, :default =&gt; 0, :polymorphic =&gt; true t.references :taxonomy, :null =&gt; false, :default =&gt; 0, :polymorphic =&gt; true end add_index :classifications, [:classifiable_id, :taxonomy_id] add_index :classifications, [:taxonomy_id, :classifiable_id] end end </code></pre> <p>Model file:</p> <pre><code>class Classification &lt; ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :classifiable, :classifiable_id, :classifiable_type, :taxonomy, :taxonomy_id, :taxonomy_type belongs_to :classifiable, :polymorphic =&gt; true belongs_to :taxonomy, :polymorphic =&gt; true end </code></pre> <p>I've then added <code>has_many :through</code> associations for Questions, Professionals, and Taxonomies.</p> <p>Taxonomy.rb</p> <pre><code>has_many :classifications, :as =&gt; :taxonomy, :foreign_key =&gt; :taxonomy_id has_many :classifiables, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :classifiable has_many :users, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :classifiable, :source_type =&gt; "User" has_many :professionals, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :classifiable, :source_type =&gt; "Professional" has_many :representants, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :classifiable, :source_type =&gt; "Representant" has_many :questions, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :classifiable, :source_type =&gt; "Question" has_many :guides, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :classifiable, :source_type =&gt; "Guide" </code></pre> <p>Question.rb</p> <pre><code>has_many :classifications, :as =&gt; :classifiable, :foreign_key =&gt; :classifiable_id, :dependent =&gt; :destroy has_many :taxonomies, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :taxonomy has_many :topics, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :taxonomy, :source_type =&gt; "Topic" </code></pre> <p>Professional.rb</p> <pre><code>has_many :classifications, :as =&gt; :classifiable, :foreign_key =&gt; :classifiable_id, :dependent =&gt; :destroy has_many :taxonomies, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :taxonomy has_many :topics, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :taxonomy, :source_type =&gt; "Topic" has_many :professions, :through =&gt; :classifications, :source =&gt; :taxonomy, :source_type =&gt; "Profession" </code></pre> <p>Now, after setting up all this, things do not work very well...</p> <ol> <li><p>I can't seem to assign taxonomies to Professionals or Questions (i.e. <code>Question.create(:title =&gt; "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet", :author =&gt; current_user, :topics =&gt; [list of topics,...])</code> works well except for topics which are not saved.)</p></li> <li><p>Where clauses don't work as they should (i.e. <code>Question.joins(:topics).where(:conditions =&gt; {:topics =&gt; {:id =&gt; [list of topics,...]}})</code> fails with a <code>no such column: "Topics"."id"</code> error.</p></li> </ol> <p>Any help? Thanks!</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>I have installed the gem 'store_base_sti_class' as indicated. It had the desired effect on the Classification model.</p> <pre><code>#&lt;Classification classifiable_id: 1, classifiable_type: "Professional", taxonomy_id: 17, taxonomy_type: "Topic"&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, when I query topics (<code>Professional.find(1).topics</code>), ActiveRecord is still looking for the class "User" instead of "Professional"...</p> <pre><code>SELECT "taxonomies".* FROM "taxonomies" INNER JOIN "classifications" ON "taxonomies"."id" = "classifications"."taxonomy_id" WHERE "taxonomies"."type" IN ('Topic') AND "classifications"."classifiable_id" = 1 AND "classifications"."classifiable_type" = 'User' AND "classifications"."taxonomy_type" = 'Topic' </code></pre> <p>Any idea how to fix it for both?</p>
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