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inheritance_column

rails latest stable - Class: ActiveRecord::ModelSchema::ClassMethods

Method deprecated or moved

This method is deprecated or moved on the latest stable version. The last existing version (v6.1.7.7) is shown here.

inheritance_column()
public

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'