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| author | David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> | 2005-07-02 06:59:08 +0000 |
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| committer | David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> | 2005-07-02 06:59:08 +0000 |
| commit | 9ac02777e7fc81369e5a837124aff51a7ca03d2b (patch) | |
| tree | 9721adcbf76ca435b58479717c743812048a6649 /activerecord/lib/active_record | |
| parent | a53372c273a06681c3e4e51faa5b0f7757d35d0b (diff) | |
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Clarified intentions of validates_associated #870
git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1602 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
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diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb index f455b97e0a..fb207ef4b2 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb @@ -572,7 +572,10 @@ module ActiveRecord # validates_associated :book # end # - # this would specify a circular dependency and cause infinite recursion. The Rails team recommends against this practice. + # ...this would specify 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 use validates_presence_of. # # Configuration options: # * <tt>on</tt> Specifies when this validation is active (default is :save, other options :create, :update) |