Ruby on Rails

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:35:08 PM UTC+2, Colin Law wrote:

For those of us with less knowledge of how the internals of rails
works could you provide a simple example of what you are attempting to
achieve with dynamic class name in a association?

 I can't speak for the OP, but in my case I needed something like:

class Report < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :reports_subjects
  has_many :subjects, through: :reports_subjects, class_name: ->(report) { report.subjects_type }

  def subjects_type
    # divine required subject model class somehow
  end
end

Of course, that won't fly since the class_name is evaluated purely as a string deep down in the reflection and at that point, all knowledge of the specific instances involved in an association has been discarded.