I think this query is more Ruby than Rails but I'm writing a Rails app
using single table inheritance
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class AdminUser < User
end
The type column in the users table holds the class name for each
instance
Now I want to convert a User object into an AdminUser. Is this
possible? Does anyone know the best way to do this?
Thanks in advance
levent
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Joey wrote:
user[:type] = AdminUser
that doesn't seem to work.. that throws "TypeError: can't dump anonymous
class Class"
I've already tried stuff like:
@user = User.find(1) # an object of type User not AdminUser
@user.type = AdminUser
@user.save # Throws the same error as above
@user[:type] = AdminUser
@user.save # Throws the same error
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} Joey wrote:
} > user[:type] = AdminUser
}
} that doesn't seem to work.. that throws "TypeError: can't dump anonymous
} class Class"
}
} I've already tried stuff like:
} @user = User.find(1) # an object of type User not AdminUser
} @user.type = AdminUser
} @user.save # Throws the same error as above
}
} @user[:type] = AdminUser
} @user.save # Throws the same error
You can't set it to the class, you need to set it to the name. It's a
subtlety:
user[:type] = 'AdminUser'
--Greg
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On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 06:43:31PM +0900, Levent Ali wrote: