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

You can create method that returns dummy Parent object for routing purpouse

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base      
  def routing_object
    Person.new(id: id)
  end
end

and then simply call form_for @employee.routing_object which without type will return Person class object