polymorphic associations wrong when used with inherited class?

rubyonrails-talk
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Consider the following:

class Event   belongs_to :event_object, :polymorphic => true end

class Asset < ActiveRecord::Base end

class EventedAsset < Asset   has_one :event, :as => :event_object end

EventedAsset.find(:first).event generates the following SQL:

SELECT * FROM `events` WHERE (events.event_object_id = 1 AND events.event_object_type = 'Asset') LIMIT 1

shouldn't this be:

SELECT * FROM `events` WHERE (events.event_object_id = 1 AND events.event_object_type = 'EventedAsset') LIMIT 1

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I guess i should RTFM.

(here for anyone with the same problem: http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.html)

Still, IMO, you shouldn't have to define a crazy method like:

def attachable_type=(sType)   super(sType.to_s.classify.constantize.base_class.to_s) end

to make STI work with polymorphic associations, it should "just work," like everything else does in rails.