resourcifying an STI table at the base class level

[AlexeyMK]

My application has Users and many kinds of Applications (with STI). Users can have roles on Applications. I was hoping to use STI with resourcify, only applying resourcify on the base Application class.

Currently, if I add resourcify to the base class, the Role gets created, but when I try User.first.roles, the ApplicationSubType resources aren't found.

For now, I'm just going to add resourcify to every Application sub-type, and it's fine. However, it would be nice to have more native support from Resourcify.

Looking at https://github.com/RolifyCommunity/rolify/blob/99d886e8c5ba2f554f1c3573fcd91575a16dd3e5/lib/rolify.rb,

  def resourcify(association_name = :roles, options = {})
    include Resource

    options.reverse_merge!({ :role_cname => 'Role', :dependent => :destroy })
    resourcify_options = { :class_name => options[:role_cname].camelize, :as => :resource, :dependent => options[:dependent] }
    self.role_cname = options[:role_cname]
    self.role_table_name = self.role_cname.tableize.gsub(/\//, "_")

    has_many association_name, resourcify_options

    self.resource_adapter = Rolify::Adapter::Base.create("resource_adapter", self.role_cname, self.name)
    @@resource_types << self.name
  end

it seems like simply allowing an option to override self.name to always use Application as the resource name would be a simple-enough fix; that said, I haven't looked into the issue deeply.

Let me know if this seems at all feasible - happy to send in a PR.

[darkporpoise]

I ran into something similar and found this issue as well as #203. I think I have resolved it by modifying the resource type within the Roles class to make sure Rolify is always using the base class for STI associations.

#app/models/role.rb
class Role < ApplicationRecord
...
  def resource_type=(type)
    super(type.to_s.classify.constantize.base_class.to_s)
  end
...
end

As mentioned here under Polymorphic Associations

[doits]

#517 might fix this. You can give it a shot if you are still interested in this issue and see if it helps.