I've been struggling to get a clear and straight-forward answer on
this one, I'm hoping this time I'll get it! 
I definitely have a lot
to learn still with Rails, however I do understand the problem I'm
facing and would really appreciate additional help.
o I have a model called "Task". o I have an abstract model called "Target". o I would like to relate multiple instances of subclasses of Target to Task. o I am not using single table inheritance. o I would like to query the polymorphic relationship to return a mixed result set of subclasses of Target. o I would like to query individual instances of subclasses of Target to obtain tasks that they are in a relationship with.
So, I figure a polymorphic many to many relationship between Tasks and subclasses of Targets is in order. In more detail, I will be able to do things like this in the console (and of course elsewhere):