Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· joneslee85

Prevent abstract ActiveRecord instantiation

#rails
#activerecord
#sti
#abstract class

Having an sort of mixed STI + Abstract? Want to block the base class to be instantiable? Simple add in validates_presence for type column in the base class. :)

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