Single Table Inheritance (STI) with ActiveRecord in Rails

January 22, 2024

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

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Have models that store the same data but need different functionality? Rails provides Single Table Inheritance in ActiveRecord to solve this problem.

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