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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:28:26 -0800 (PST)
From: George Stan <george.stanx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Mapping fake FKs as relationships?
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Thank you all for your advice.

> Having actually done this the first
> way Andrus mentions, my advice is to do it the second way
> (as an inheritance) if you can. 
Hmm, I'm trying, but CM seems to allow me only one element for the inheritance :(. Unfortunately, many Entities must inherit from more than one since they have Tags, Comments and Events too:(.

 
> George, could you point us to the documentation for how
> ActiveRecord implements this? 
I'm afraid there's no such documentation, as this is a core Rails feature,
there are not too many architecture documents about them - just the sources :(.

George.