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Asked: May 12, 20262026-05-12T05:44:10+00:00 2026-05-12T05:44:10+00:00

I have a polymorphic relationship in Rails, but in one particular instance of use,

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I have a polymorphic relationship in Rails, but in one particular instance of use, I’d only like to retrieve records for a specific class.

What’s the best approach to do this?

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    2026-05-12T05:44:10+00:00Added an answer on May 12, 2026 at 5:44 am

    The rails plugin has_many_polymorphs can suit this purpose fairly well. You can define “getters” to pull specific data types out that are part of a polymorphic relationship.

    It is somewhat complicated and the documentation could afford to improve however.

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