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Single Table Inheritance

August 4, 2025

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Collin Jilbert

Ruby on Rails Developer | Lover of Music | Skateboarder | Proud Papa | Co-editor @therubyradar | Launched @fleur_de_ruby

About This Episode

In this episode, will look at implementing single table inheritance for models that all share common attributes in a single database table but all need to have their own behavior.

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