Method: ActiveRecord::ModelSchema::ClassMethods#inheritance_column

Defined in:
lib/active_record/model_schema.rb

#inheritance_column ⇒ Object

Defines the name of the table column which will store the class name on single-table inheritance situations.

The default inheritance column name is type, which means it’s a reserved word inside Active Record. To be able to use single-table inheritance with another column name, or to use the column type in your own model for something else, you can set inheritance_column:

self.inheritance_column = 'zoink'



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# File 'lib/active_record/model_schema.rb', line 159

def inheritance_column
  (@inheritance_column ||= nil) || superclass.inheritance_column
end