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003 RC Single Table Inheritance (STI)
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Single Table Inheritance is a slightly advanced topic in Ruby on Rails. It stems from class inheritance, which is a core Object Oriented Programming principle.
In Ruby, if you inherit one class from another, you use the ‘<’ operator. Here’s an example:
class Truck < Car
end
In Rails, this gets tricky because when inheriting a Model,...

