Single Table Inheritance routing?

Question

I have single table inheritance working just fine for my app. I have two user subtypes (Athlete and Company) that inherit the super-type User.

Let's say I am listing all users, and want a link to each user's profile from this list. I want to link to the athletes controller if the type is athlete and the companies controller if the type is company. Is there a standard Rails way to this? Maybe some routing tricks?

Answer 1

<% User.find(:all).each do |user| %>
  <%= link_to "user", eval("#{user.type.underscore}_path(user)") %>
<% end %>

This will generate a path according to the type of the user (stored in type field). Don't forget to add the type of users to your routes configuration.

I hope this helps.

regards, Stijn

Answer 2

you can even do that much simpler, Rails recognizes which type of user it has to deal with, so let's say you have the instance variable @user wich can either be an Athlete or a Company, you can just do that

= link_to "Profile", @user

BAM! Rails magic!