Consider the following:
class Base class_inheritable_accessor :value end Base.value = SomeActiveRecordClass class Concrete < Base; end
Reasonable enough. Concrete.value.find will die horribly, because Concrete.value.table_name is the empty string.
I believe this is because in class_inheritable_accessor we dup the values, in this case SomeActiveRecordClass/ The duped class isn't assigned to a constant and so has no name (at least on ruby 1.8.6), and since we derive table names from class names we're boned. (unless SomeActiveRecordClass had already set its table name).
Storing classes like this isn't really a great idea idea anyway (because of class reloading in dev mode) but it seems the duping classes like this isn't really necessary, and could lead to hard to diagnose problems
Making it not dup classes seems to fix the problem, but I wondered if someone who knows this corner of ActiveSupport could cast any extra light?
Fred
