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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record')
-rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 33 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb index 022b577704..5e61d26b79 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb @@ -782,22 +782,25 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: # Finder methods must instantiate through this method to work with the single-table inheritance model # that makes it possible to create objects of different types from the same table. def instantiate(record) - subclass_name = record[inheritance_column] - require_association_class(subclass_name) - - object = if subclass_name.blank? - allocate - else - begin - compute_type(subclass_name).allocate - rescue NameError - raise SubclassNotFound, - "The single-table inheritance mechanism failed to locate the subclass: '#{record[inheritance_column]}'. " + - "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 #{self.to_s}.inheritance_column to use another column for that information." + object = + if subclass_name = record[inheritance_column] + if subclass_name.empty? + allocate + else + require_association_class(subclass_name) + begin + compute_type(subclass_name).allocate + rescue NameError + raise SubclassNotFound, + "The single-table inheritance mechanism failed to locate the subclass: '#{record[inheritance_column]}'. " + + "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 #{self.to_s}.inheritance_column to use another column for that information." + end + end + else + allocate end - end object.instance_variable_set("@attributes", record) object |