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| author | Vijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com> | 2011-07-30 23:16:07 +0530 |
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| committer | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2011-08-13 16:22:11 -0700 |
| commit | 7372e9ae9a06e6b15e1a20bc69667bf44c79676c (patch) | |
| tree | 74ed535d5d4343cfe27040326976fbe2fbde750c | |
| parent | ad55b1aa86a1d8b7d6e9e35c7cce77b122bca1e1 (diff) | |
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make the warning clear about the effect of using validates_associated on both sides on an association.
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/validations/associated.rb | 10 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations/associated.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations/associated.rb index 5df85304a2..7af0352a31 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations/associated.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations/associated.rb @@ -17,15 +17,7 @@ module ActiveRecord # validates_associated :pages, :library # end # - # Warning: If, after the above definition, you then wrote: - # - # class Page < ActiveRecord::Base - # belongs_to :book - # - # validates_associated :book - # end - # - # this would specify a circular dependency and cause infinite recursion. + # WARNING: This validation must not be used on both ends of an association. Doing so will lead to a circular dependency and cause infinite recursion. # # NOTE: This validation will not fail if the association hasn't been assigned. If you want to # ensure that the association is both present and guaranteed to be valid, you also need to |