On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:07 PM, tom <[email protected]> wrote:

> its just pseudo-code.
>
> but if i leave the base resource in there, then it give me an /animal/id
> route which i dont want. i want either /tiger/id or lion/id

Then you need to know whether your animal is a tiger or lion (or bear
of course), and call the appropriate path helper.  That kind of
messiness is exactly what inheritance (and other forms of
polymorphism) are great at solving.

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