Polymorphic STI

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For fun, I wanted to write a wallet application. There must be tranasctions with came in to flavors - income and spendings. After playing for a while, i wanted to make everything pretty.

I have something like:

class FinancialTransction < AR::Base   belongs_to :transactinable, :polymorphic => true end

class Income < AR::Base end

class Spending < AR::Base end

Then i though - why should i have almost empty models just for the sake of saving id. I tried this and that, but nothing works. It's either empty transactionable_type or two separate records (first without type, second with).

My question: how to implement this? is there some beautiful way?

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Assuming that you want STI:

create_table :financial_transactions do |t|   t.string :transaction_type   ... end

class FinancialTransaction < AR:Base   self.inheritance_column :transaction_type   ... end

class Income < FinancialTransaction   ... end

class Spending < FinancialTransaction   ... end