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new(*args, &block) public

Determines if one of the attributes passed in is the inheritance column, and if the inheritance column is attr accessible, it initializes an instance of the given subclass instead of the base class

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# File activerecord/lib/active_record/inheritance.rb, line 17
      def new(*args, &block)
        if abstract_class? || self == Base
          raise NotImplementedError, "#{self} is an abstract class and can not be instantiated."
        end
        if (attrs = args.first).is_a?(Hash)
          if subclass = subclass_from_attrs(attrs)
            return subclass.new(*args, &block)
          end
        end
        # Delegate to the original .new
        super
      end

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