Improve wording of comments

Most of the time, these methods are called from actual methods defined
from columns in the schema, not from method_missing, so the current
wording is misleading.

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/before_type_cast.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/before_type_cast.rb
index 5941f51a1a..dc239ff9ea 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/before_type_cast.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/before_type_cast.rb
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
 
       private
 
-        # Handle *_before_type_cast for method_missing.
+        # Dispatch target for <tt>*_before_type_cast</tt> attribute methods.
         def attribute_before_type_cast(attribute_name)
           read_attribute_before_type_cast(attribute_name)
         end
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/query.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/query.rb
index 6811f54b10..0cf67644af 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/query.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/query.rb
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
       end
 
       private
-        # Handle *? for method_missing.
+        # Dispatch target for <tt>*?</tt> attribute methods.
         def attribute?(attribute_name)
           query_attribute(attribute_name)
         end
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/write.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/write.rb
index 455e67e19b..d5ba2f42cb 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/write.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/write.rb
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
           value
         end
 
-        # Handle *= for method_missing.
+        # Dispatch target for <tt>*=</tt> attribute methods.
         def attribute=(attribute_name, value)
           _write_attribute(attribute_name, value)
         end