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Use custom type name with Ruby on Rails STI mechanism.
Let's say you want to modify default type
column Rails uses to identify class -> subclass inheritance with the same database table. Just use the following methods:
Copyclass User < ActiveRecord::Base end class Admin < User def find_sti_class(type_name) type_name = self.name super end def sti_name 'Administrator' end end
Now you can see that in table users
you have type 'Administrator' which transforms to class Admin inside Rails ActiveRecord.