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authorAlex Handley <alex@seriousfox.co.uk>2015-02-09 14:15:39 +0000
committerAlex Handley <alex@seriousfox.co.uk>2015-02-09 14:15:39 +0000
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[ci skip] corrects documentation for the default dependent behaviour
By default the foreign key will remain set with the parent id after destroy is fired.
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-rw-r--r--activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
index 81a42e22f3..5a3b4f0c40 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
# record(s) being removed so that callbacks are run. However <tt>delete</tt> and <tt>delete_all</tt> will either
# do the deletion according to the strategy specified by the <tt>:dependent</tt> option, or
# if no <tt>:dependent</tt> option is given, then it will follow the default strategy.
- # The default strategy is <tt>:nullify</tt> (set the foreign keys to <tt>nil</tt>), except for
+ # The default strategy is to do nothing (leave the foreign keys with the parent ids set), except for
# +has_many+ <tt>:through</tt>, where the default strategy is <tt>delete_all</tt> (delete
# the join records, without running their callbacks).
#