Change ActiveRecord::Base.inheritance_column in a rails app

activerecord, ruby-on-rails, single-table-inheritance

Solution

Try the following:

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
    self.inheritance_column = 'column_that_is_not_type'
end

Your migrations should work everywhere.

Problem

I want to use Single Table Inheritance using a column other than `type`. According to the Rails documentation - http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html, I can do this by modifying `ActiveRecord::Base.inheritance_column`. How can I do this?

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