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I try to keep up with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, even if I’m not working with one of them at the moment. These are the three feeds helping me to get the latest news:

Planet Ruby on Rails

PlanetRubyOnRails.com, not to be mixed up with PlanetRubyOnRails.org, is a simple feed aggregator with a set of quite informative blogs. Including the official Riding Rails Blog, Ruby Inside, and InfoQ. Unfortunately...

By default it’s not possible to use a database-column called type for anything else than single table inheritance. To change this, simply use set_inheritance_column() and read_attribute():

class TypeTest < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_inheritance_column(:something_else)

  def type
    read_attribute(:type)
  end

  def type=(value)
    write_attribute(:type, value)
  end
end