Rails: Invalid single-table inheritance type error

rails-models, ruby-on-rails-4

Solution

I resolved this by setting the models inheritance_column to nil. Active Record Models can inherit from a table through the attribute `:type`, setting the inheritance_column to nil removes that attribute allowing you to have a database column named `type`

class Quote < ActiveRecord::Base
    self.inheritance_column = nil
end

Problem

So, I am working on migrating this php site with an existing database which I cannot change over to Rails. There is a table: `Quotes` with a column named `type`. Whenever I try and create a model of this and set the type, it tells me the following error: `ActiveRecord::SubclassNotFound (Invalid single-table inheritance type: HOME is not a subclass of Quotes)` I don't understand why it thinks its inheriting because it's not supposed to. My create method looks like this: ``` quote = Quotes.create( agent_id: agent.id, client_id: client.id, type: 'HOME', status: 0, date_created: DateTime.now ) ``` If I comment out the type, everything works fine. But with the Type it errors.

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