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| author | Ryan Bigg <radarlistener@gmail.com> | 2010-12-23 15:44:12 +1000 |
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| committer | Ryan Bigg <radarlistener@gmail.com> | 2010-12-23 15:44:12 +1000 |
| commit | cef17cd705c3529139fa1fd5bbc0e9c6ae289ba4 (patch) | |
| tree | e065085bf69b51980e9642dd7ff355259586f7ea /railties | |
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Query guide: specify what type of objects scopes return
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index b315a2b107..5264477e1c 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ Even though Active Record lets you specify conditions on the eager loaded associ h3. Scopes -Scoping allows you to specify commonly-used ARel queries which can be referenced as method calls on the association objects or models. With these scopes, you can use every method previously covered such as +where+, +joins+ and +includes+. +Scoping allows you to specify commonly-used ARel queries which can be referenced as method calls on the association objects or models. With these scopes, you can use every method previously covered such as +where+, +joins+ and +includes+. All scope methods will return an +ActiveRecord::Relation+ object which will allow for further methods (such as other scopes) to be called on it. To define a simple scope, we use the +scope+ method inside the class, passing the ARel query that we'd like run when this scope is called: |