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

This way works for me ok (define this method in the base class):

def self.inherited(child)
  child.instance_eval do
    alias :original_model_name :model_name
    def model_name
      Task::Base.model_name
    end
  end
  super
end