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| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb index b806a2f832..ef35d80523 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb @@ -300,10 +300,10 @@ module ActiveRecord # # === A word of warning # - # Don't create associations that have the same name as instance methods of - # ActiveRecord::Base. Since the association adds a method with that name to - # its model, it will override the inherited method and break things. - # For instance, +attributes+ and +connection+ would be bad choices for association names. + # Don't create associations that have the same name as [instance methods](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Core.html) of + # <tt>ActiveRecord::Base</tt>. Since the association adds a method with that name to + # its model, using an association with the same name as one provided by <tt>ActiveRecord::Base</tt> will override the method inherited through <tt>ActiveRecord::Base</tt> and will break things. + # For instance, +attributes+ and +connection+ would be bad choices for association names, because those names already exist in the list of <tt>ActiveRecord::Base</tt> instance methods. # # == Auto-generated methods # See also Instance Public methods below for more details. |