Get the root class of an ActiveRecord STI hierarchy

Henning Koch

August 12, 2015Software engineer at makandra GmbH

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This traverses up the hierarchy until it encounters either

a class inheriting from ActiveRecord::Base or
a class inheriting from an abstract class (inheriting from ActiveRecord::Base)

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2015-08-12 11:46)