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ruby-on-railstypeerrordupinherited

A bug in rails? About model inherited


My env: ruby-1.9.2-preview3; rails-3.0.0.beta3

class PostFather < ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.inherited(subclass)
  end
end

class Post < PostFather
end

In the console:


> Post.new # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass
> Post.all # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass
> Post.scoped # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass

You can try it yourself;


Solution

  • ActiveRecord is using the inherited method, you need to call super so the ActiveRecord stuff still runs:

    class PostFather < ActiveRecord::Base
      def self.inherited(subclass)
        super(subclass)
      end
    end