ActiveRecord column "type"

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Hi There...

I'm in a bit of a pickle. The thing is that I'm writing an administrative rails application to handle the mysql data for a application(PowerDNS to be exact.) However. The problem is that I 2 tables in there have the column "type" wich of course is a magic column for single table inheritance. I can set in my model the line self.inheritance_column = "nothing" and the script runs. However then of course I start getting ModelName reportend when I try using model.type to get to the type column in the data. Either I have to change the behaviour of .type or map .r_type to the "type" column. I'm unsure which is the best way to go and how to do it.

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Found it out. type method is deprecated so it should be safe to remove.

in environments.rb class Object   undef_method :type end

in modelname.rb class Modelname < ActiveRecord::base   set_inheritance_column "nothing" end