Best practices to handle routes for STI subclasses in rails

Question

My Rails views and controllers are littered with redirect_to, link_to, and form_for method calls. Sometimes link_to and <

Answer 1

If I consider an STI inheritance like this:

class AModel < ActiveRecord::Base ; end
class BModel < AModel ; end
class CModel < AModel ; end
class DModel < AModel ; end
class EModel < AModel ; end

in 'app/models/a_model.rb' I add:

module ManagedAtAModelLevel
  def model_name
    AModel.model_name
  end
end

And then in the AModel class:

class AModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.instanciate_STI
    managed_deps = { 
      :b_model => true,
      :c_model => true,
      :d_model => true,
      :e_model => true
    }
    managed_deps.each do |dep, managed|
      require_dependency dep.to_s
      klass = dep.to_s.camelize.constantize
      # Inject behavior to be managed at AModel level for classes I chose
      klass.send(:extend, ManagedAtAModelLevel) if managed
    end
  end

  instanciate_STI
end

Therefore I can even easily choose which model I want to use the default one, and this without even touching the sub class definition. Very dry.