Summary Django’s proxy models provide the basis for Single Table Inheritance. However, some effort is required to make it work. Skip to the end for a re-usable example. Background Martin Fowler describes Single Table Inheritance (STI) as follows: Single Table Inheritance maps all fields of all classes of an inheritance structure into a single table. … Read more
This is the simplest solution I was able to come up with with minimal side effect. class Person < Contact def self.model_name Contact.model_name end end Now url_for @person will map to contact_path as expected. How it works: URL helpers rely on YourModel.model_name to reflect upon the model and generate (amongst many things) singular/plural route keys. … Read more
In Rails 3.1 set_inheritance_column is deprecated, also you can just use nil as a name, like this: class Pancakes < ActiveRecord::Base self.inheritance_column = nil #… end