static public Method

Base.base_class

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Returns the base AR subclass that this class descends from. If A extends AR::Base, A.base_class will return A. If B descends from A through some arbitrarily deep hierarchy, B.base_class will return A.

Source Code

# File active_record/base.rb, line 1211
def base_class
  class_of_active_record_descendant(self)
end
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