<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>class_of_active_record_descendant (ActiveRecord::Base)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../.././rdoc-style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body class="standalone-code"> <pre><span class="ruby-comment cmt"># File lib/active_record/base.rb, line 2206</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">def</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">class_of_active_record_descendant</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">klass</span>) <span class="ruby-keyword kw">if</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">klass</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">superclass</span> <span class="ruby-operator">==</span> <span class="ruby-constant">Base</span> <span class="ruby-operator">||</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">klass</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">superclass</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">abstract_class?</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">klass</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">elsif</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">klass</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">superclass</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">nil?</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">raise</span> <span class="ruby-constant">ActiveRecordError</span>, <span class="ruby-node">"#{name} doesn't belong in a hierarchy descending from ActiveRecord"</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">else</span> <span class="ruby-identifier">class_of_active_record_descendant</span>(<span class="ruby-identifier">klass</span>.<span class="ruby-identifier">superclass</span>) <span class="ruby-keyword kw">end</span> <span class="ruby-keyword kw">end</span></pre> </body> </html>