I'm working on a legacy project that uses a polymophic associations where the type column is lower case. The thing that sucks is I can't change the database because I still have an untested Java side that we don't want to change. So here comes the solution, and maybe some flames.
ActiveRecord::AttributeMethods#read_attribute is called on the type field, which we will call foo, because it isn't called type in our database. So in our model we have this:
#Disclaimer
def read_attribute(attr_name)
if attr_name == 'foo'
#code to change to accepted type column values
foo.camelize
else
super
end
end
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