ActiveRecord - querying polymorphic associations

Question

I am using polymorphic associations to track Comments in my project. All very straight forward stuff.

The problem I have is in querying based on the polymorphic asso

Answer 1

The accepted solution does not work once you introduce another model that has an association using "commentable". commentable_id is not unique and therefore you'll start retrieving the wrong comments.

For example:

You decide to add a news model that accepts comments...

class News < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :comments, :as => :commentable
end

Now you may get two records back if you made a comment on a forum_topic with an id of 1 and a news article with an id of 1 using your query:

:joins => "INNER JOIN forum_topics ON forum_topics.id = comments.commentable_id"

You could probably solve the problem by supplying a commentable_type as one of your conditions, but I don't think that's the best way to approach this issue.