How to get collection of models inside your application. Certainly there are many ways to do it.
Lets have a look at different ways starting from worst -
Get table names inside database and then iterating over to get model name
@models = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.collect{|t| t.underscore.singularize.camelize}
#=> ["AdhearsionAudit", "AudioLog", "AuditDetail","TinyPrint", "TinyVideo", "UnknownCall", "UserAudit", "User"]
Select those with associated class
@models.delete_if{|m| m.constantize rescue true}
Load models dir
@models = Dir['app/models/*.rb'].map {|f| File.basename(f, '.*').camelize.constantize.name }
Select ActiveRecord::Base extended class only
@models.reject!{|m| m.constantize.superclass != ActiveRecord::Base }
Get Active Record subclasses
# make sure relevant models are loaded otherwise
# require them prior
# Dir.glob(RAILS_ROOT + '/app/models/*.rb').each { |file| require file }
class A < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class B < A
end
ActiveRecord::Base.send(:subclasses).collect(&:name)
#=> [...., A]
How to get Inherited models too
class A < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class B < A
end
ActiveRecord::Base.descendants.collect(&:name)
#=> [...., A, B]
Below is more elegant solution provide by Vincent-robert over stack overflow which recursively looks for subsequent descendent's of class and gives you list from all over application
class Class
def extend?(klass)
not superclass.nil? and ( superclass == klass or superclass.extend? klass )
end
end
def models
Module.constants.select do |constant_name|
constant = eval constant_name
if not constant.nil? and constant.is_a? Class and constant.extend? ActiveRecord::Base
constant
end
end
end
