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Travis Eubanks
12,566 Pointslog_time(amount, customer)? Not making sense.
Im confused on how the method log_time(amount, customer) is working.
Why is when you call that method on an Employee object the account: is set to customer?
Wouldnt you set it to (self) because you want it to save to an entry by an employee?
1 Answer
Travis Eubanks
12,566 PointsYes this is a STI question. Yes, the Account table stores Customer and Employees (Customer model and Employee model inherit from Account table). I guess im just confused on why they would set an account from a passed argument when calling self on the account: attribute should suffice.
class Employee < Account has_many :time_entries
def total_hours time_entries.sum(:time) end
def log_time(amount, customer) TimeEntry.create(time: amount, employee: self, account: customer) end end
Heres the snippet of code if this helps render my question
Thanks in advance!
Samuel Johnson
9,152 PointsSamuel Johnson
9,152 PointsI havent seen the code but guessing this is something to do with single table inheritance? The idea is that the account table will store employees and customers? This is just my first guess..