Rails extending ActiveRecord::Base

Question

I\'ve done some reading about how to extend ActiveRecord:Base class so my models would have some special methods. What is the easy way to extend it (step by step tutorial)?<

Answer 1

You can just extend the class and simply use inheritance.

class AbstractModel < ActiveRecord::Base  
  self.abstract_class = true
end

class Foo < AbstractModel
end

class Bar < AbstractModel
end