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authorJeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>2007-05-23 06:35:08 +0000
committerJeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>2007-05-23 06:35:08 +0000
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Fix :through docs wrecked up by [6777]. Closes #4961.
git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@6817 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
-rwxr-xr-xactiverecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
index c72024d5f3..0e8a48f2a0 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
@@ -608,7 +608,8 @@ module ActiveRecord
# include the joined columns.
# * <tt>:as</tt>: Specifies a polymorphic interface (See #belongs_to).
# * <tt>:through</tt>: Specifies a Join Model to perform the query through. Options for <tt>:class_name</tt> and <tt>:foreign_key</tt>
- # are ignored, as the association uses the source reflection.
+ # are ignored, as the association uses the source reflection. You can only use a <tt>:through</tt> query through a <tt>belongs_to</tt>
+ # or <tt>has_many</tt> association on the join model.
# * <tt>:source</tt>: Specifies the source association name used by <tt>has_many :through</tt> queries. Only use it if the name cannot be
# inferred from the association. <tt>has_many :subscribers, :through => :subscriptions</tt> will look for either +:subscribers+ or
# +:subscriber+ on +Subscription+, unless a +:source+ is given.