Get the root class of an ActiveRecord STI hierarchy
Use
base_class
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.
This traverses up the hierarchy until it encounters either
- a class inheriting from
ActiveRecord::Baseor - a class inheriting from an abstract class (inheriting from
ActiveRecord::Base)
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