It is used to find the class correspondent to the value stored in the
inheritance column.
# File activerecord/lib/active_record/inheritance.rb, line 194
def sti_class_for(type_name)
if store_full_sti_class && store_full_class_name
type_name.constantize
else
compute_type(type_name)
end
rescue NameError
raise SubclassNotFound,
"The single-table inheritance mechanism failed to locate the subclass: '#{type_name}'. " "This error is raised because the column '#{inheritance_column}' is reserved for storing the class in case of inheritance. " "Please rename this column if you didn't intend it to be used for storing the inheritance class " "or overwrite #{name}.inheritance_column to use another column for that information."
end