I'm trying like crazy to wrap a rails app around a legacy oracle database. This app will not be mutating any data in the database, only viewing it. Here's a 30 second description of the "schema".
There is a master table for a health care claim (I will call it claim_master), and this table has a unique id for the claim, as well as a type and a status. Type can be 1 of about a dozen possible values. Status is either paid, suspended or denied. Then we have several other tables, split up by claim type and status, that hold extra claims data. So claims of type A with a paid status would be in, say, claims_a_paid and a claim with type B with a deny status would be in claim_b_deny.
I want to set up my models with associations, but the association must depend on values in the database. Take this:
class Claim < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :extra set_table_name "claim_master" end
class ClaimExtra < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :claim set_table_name "???" end
The table name that belongs where the ??? is depends on data in the claim. Is there any rails magic I can use that can let this table name be dynamically constructed out of the results from the belongs_to directive being executed?
