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sti_class_for

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sti_class_for(type_name) public

Returns the class for the provided type_name.

It is used to find the class correspondent to the value stored in the inheritance column.

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/inheritance.rb, line 183
      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

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