http://blog.handwire.com/articles/2006/04/12/single-table-inheritance en-us 40 A blog by Handwire <div style="float:right" class="flickrplugin"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlovitt/127248015"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/52/127248015_5284012b9e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Skip drops Rails science" title="Skip drops Rails science"/></a></div> <p>Last night I gave a talk on <a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/SingleTableInheritance">Single Table Inheritance</a> to the <a href="http://austinonrails.org/">Austin on Rails</a> user group. Single Table Inheritance (<abbr title="Single Table Inheritance"><span class="caps">STI</span></abbr>) is a way to have several Rails models all extend from a base class sharing properties and behavior. If y&#8217;all haven&#8217;t checked out the <a href="http://rubyonrails.com/">Rails phenomenon</a>, I wholeheartedly recommend <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/08/physics_of_pass.html">drinking the kool-aid</a>. It&#8217;s a fabulous framework and Ruby is a joy to program in.</p> <p>The presentation went great and I got a lot of good questions from the audience. I used Eric Meyer&#8217;s fantastic <a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/">S5</a> slideshow code to present with and the slides are up on my personal site (<a href="http://twelvelabs.com/singletable/index.html">twelvelabs</a>) if anyone wants to take a peek.</p> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:46:00 -0400 urn:uuid:10f1565f-2fc2-4459-b409-6013ac576bc9 Skip http://blog.handwire.com/articles/2006/04/12/single-table-inheritance ruby rails austinonrails http://blog.handwire.com/articles/trackback/55